Marcus aka Gregory Maidman
1 min readAug 15, 2021

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Very clever piece indeed. As are the single quotes around love in your kind link. I proudly and with glee affirm my love for Libby, and hers for me, goes way beyond our erotic attraction to each other without yet even having met in real life. https://medium.com/write-under-the-moon/love-before-sight-7cfd27e6c081. That was the first of three dizain poems I have written to date. Before trying it, I felt a distain for the form as I do for rhyming forms generally as I tended to feel the need to rhyme constrains me (and certainly presented a challenge in the poem to which you linked). I started out that first piece with this tanka (I like syllable counts):

Agnes wrote in Slack

Introducing the dizain

I demurred to rhyme

Then another prompt converged

I challenge myself for love

And as you know, my second dizain was certainly not a love poem--but I do dearly love my departed friend whose suicide inspired it https://medium.com/the-pom/dizain-of-suicide-72bcde4dc8d8 and my passion for suicide prevention through awareness

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Marcus aka Gregory Maidman
Marcus aka Gregory Maidman

Written by Marcus aka Gregory Maidman

Living 17,043rd human life. I am Marcus (universal name) or you may call me Greg; a deep thinker; an explorer of ideas and the mind.

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