To Bee or Not, buzzer Options

[Merlin]

To Bee or not to Bee

Another close of day, and rain
pulsed on the building in tintinnabulation.
This was not my choice of evening, but
ducks should be dancing with pleasure.

Another day in the jungle – feeling wiped
and horrified at the thought of fighting traffic
through squares of manmade symmetry.
As I waited at a light, I wondered
why our world was square.

And I wondered why the bee,
that architect of perfection,
had chosen the hexagon as its design,
but man is smarter than a bee
and not as fragile.

And I wondered why I wore my dress pants
on a day destined to be bucketing
till I remembered – man is smarter than a bee.

[Merlin]

Good Sunday Morning, Leo & Ron.
Thank you for the comments, each was a delight.
Leo, I've only just put the coffee on, so am glad you've had your breakfast (being some 8 hours ahead of the NA west coast!) Equally glad you've envisioned me "dressed".

Did I ring any bells with "tintinnabulation"? True, luverly word seldom used.
Ah, regionalisms. Here it's very common to hear the noun-phrase of "dress pants", and perhaps that is because one seldom dresses in them, using the ever-present blue jeans. "Trousers" is perhaps even rarer, and Knickers are now "undies", not Knickerbockers. "Pants" include any outerwear a man would have on his lower body. But your point is a good one, I'll at least hyphenate the words since there isn't a good substitute that will work.
My aside >> the word that won the day for me was "children". Apparently in some US dialects, it's a 3-syllable word - chill-der-un. Hoo noo?



Ron, I believe you've caught at least a couple of the necessary items that make a difference in free verse and open form. I particularly don't like free verse, into which category I would place about 95% of unstructured poetry. What I try to offer is "open form", and that isn't simple chopping a line and calling it verse. Other devices are employed, and those took me some 3 years to get a good handle on. In that time period, I found several exceptional pieces that became my backbone of this realm.
As to geometric layouts - when I was in Hong Kong visiting the monastery up in the mountains (Lin Po, if I remember it, where the world's largest outdoor Buddha sits), I was struck by their use of "round" over the common rectangular/square of our western construction. Round is so easy on the eyes, compared to angular. There was a round opening to enter a garden, and numerous other round items. All very peaceful, all entwined in their philosophy of a calm life. Beautiful.

The fact that I brought a smile to you both is reason enuff to call this a success!
My thanks.

Merlin