A while ago I made my own poetry form that was a poem that could be read left to right, line by line, as any other poem would be, but within it were three other poems, to be read down in the three columns. When I wrote it, each column had a different meaning, and eventually I made it so that the two furthest columns were opposing each other with regards to the poetic content while the middle column was balancing and finding a middle ground in its meaning- you can see it here: Mirror(Me) poem
Since then I have tried to replicate the poetic form but have never been able to work out anything that carried the same meaning and relevance found in where that meaning was to be read on the page. Yesterday I was listening to some songs and used them as starting points to try and at least use the basic poetic form- the poem that can be read left to right, line by line, as usual, but can also be divided into separate poems in the downwards spaced columns as it's written. These very short attempts by no means have parts within them that offset their other component parts, but they can be read as four separate poems, with separate meanings. I'll keep trying but I think the mirror poem was probably a lucky one.
