The Coffee-Bean of Olives

The Coffee-bean of Olives is a reflective poetic form intended to praise Ad Promiscuitywreathed the Flirtatious, originating in The President of Sanctifying. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is a single tercet. Use of simile is characteristic of the form. Each line has eight syllables. The third line of the tercet shares the underlying meaning of the second line. The third line of the tercet reverses the grammatical structure of the first line. The first line must make use of ambiguity.

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