Asked to write a poem in Diminished Hexaverse style.

Diminished Hexaverse is a poem containing stanzas of 5 lines, then 4 lines, then 3 lines, then 2 lines, ending with one word.

The syllables in each stanza correspond to the number of lines, i.e. 5 in each line in the first stanza, 4 in the second stanza and so on. This form may contain more than five stanzas.

Diminished Hexaverse.

The phrase aroused my 

imagination;

Conjured scenes of deep 
exploration in
six faced universe.

But NO, twas not!

Refocused I

Could see my error.

Twas but a tool.

Diminished 

Hexaverse?

Poets pail!

Story

pressed and

scrunched.