Poetic Development - Modulor Poem "Crystal-ball Bath-time"

This poem was by far the most challenging to create. After e-mailing the form creator, Lisa Lajeunesse, and asking for a few pro-tips for how to think to develop such a poem, I was successful in creating a poem about my daughter and other things I'm passionate about: Earth Science & magical fantasy.

The modulor poem form was tricky for me because, like the Miura-Ori poem form from earlier blog posts, the separate sections need to be able to be read together, but also be capable of standing alone; not only that but they should be able to be shifted into different positions and still retain (or enhance!) meaning - but maybe not the same meaning as it would create an entirely different thought provoking experience.

My process started with meteorology (tile 1: upper LHS), then after filling the space with its own unique poem, I tried to compare being able to witness and predict the forecast on the planet with magical fortune tellers peering into crystal balls. So line by line, I wrote a similar poem as tile 2 (upper RHS) with a magical twist while cross-checking for meaning and coherence with tile 1. Finally, thematically starting with large-scale global viewing and prediction, zooming into small-scale crystal-ball viewing and prediction (despite both processes looking similar where one is staring into a glowing glass sphere, the other stares into backlit glass rectangular prism with a keyboard), we zoom out (and simultaneously in) to my daughter's bath time and the microcosm of her toys experiencing the changes in environmental conditions invoked by her.

Tile 3 was written separately only needing coherence in inspiration from tiles 1 and 2. The whole poem - once inspired - was a joy to write, but until inspiration struck was quite a daunting challenge! I am hoping to read this at Bridges Conference 2026.

Side note with consistent spelling issue:

I keep writing/typing modular poem because I think of the parts (or tiles) as modules that can be shifted, replaced, and/or removed. I've been corrected several times with the spelling being modulor consistent with the spelling of the title of the book Modulor by Le Corbusier the inspiration for the poetic form. So this is more of a note-to-self for future recollection.