Our Glass Poetry

Ok... so it's an art form!
In a couple of recent poems I noticed my tendency to juxtapose lines with successive lengths... and with "Uncle" I wrote the whole poem that way...

It seems rather like a 1920's parlor game, and maybe someone invented it long ago, but, in case they didn't, I hereby dub this "Our Glass Poetry"

And that means rules... like haiku rules.

1) The poem's first and last lines have the same number of syllables.
2) Each line has one fewer than the previous, until
3) Two lines with one syllable words.
4) These two words must have the same meaning in some sense...
5) They do not have to be used to mean the same thing
6) They can be visual synonyms, or aural synonyms, or actual synonyms.
7) Then each line has one more syllable than the previous.
8) Ok, simple?
9) Syllables are the way you hear it... rhythm has 2, spelled has 1.. or two if you want to sound Elizabethan.

Examples

How you
cook
toast
matters

To our
cook!
Toast
your glass


And in the
midnight
hour,
time
can be
so cruel

It is
our
time
to shine

Shed a
tear!
Rip
your shirt!

Enough examples... enjoy!
Charlie