Two of our FanStory colleagues, Pantygynt and ciliverde, have collaborated to create this new poetic form that they call a "Sapphonic Triad". They describe it like this:

A two line quotation (Free verse but max total of sixteen syllables - must be concise and memorable) followed by a quatrain, four lines each of four syllables finally an 8-4-6 syllable envoi that moves us on somewhere...it should have a "satori" feeling.

My quotation is abbreviated from T. S. Eliot's "Burnt Norton" 1935. The full quotation is:
"At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless;
Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is,
But neither arrest nor movement."

I understand that the form was inspired by Mary Barnard's splendid translation of Sappho's poems.

Thanks to Raoul D'Harmental, whose image from FanArtReview.com is the perfect embodiment of the surface meaning of my poem.

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