This poem is structured on the antAdi form in Tamizh, where the last word(s) or letters of each foot is used as the first in the next, and the very first as the very last, to tie up everything into a mAlA--garland.

The One and Many
(iambic pentameter)

The One that was, was all that was, alone.
Alone, therefore, the wheel of Time at rest.
At rest, the One reflected to have a Clone.
A clone arose within and set the Quest.

The Quest immersed the One in a cosmic dream.
The Dream began in a primal undertone.
The tone dispersed in notes of lives in stream.
The stream of lives complains and seeks the One.

--saidevo, 03/03/2014

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