Sweet and Bitter Stuff of Wonder
Brought to you by Mary K
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When you dream without a memory
groping breathlessly about,
hopelessness – your only reverie.
When you dream without a memory
hoping you’ll escape it cleverly
and with not so much as pout.
When you dream without a memory
groping breathlessly about.
©2020, forestlove
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It spirited away
cold-bloodedly
Just walked astray
It spirited away
The smoke appeared gray
quite ruggedly
It spirited away
cold-bloodedly.
©2020, forestlove
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Earlier today, I wrote a triolet and now the temptation was too strong to resist. Moreover, the prompt “spirit” calls for an old-fashioned ring in the poem.
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This little girl with her cute smile
forgives me all my wrongly deeds
and in her all-forgiving style
this little girl with her cute smile
will trot up every temple’s aisle
her dress all flowers, frills and beads.
This little girl with her cute smile
forgives me all my wrongly deeds.
©2020, forestlove
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Above is my triolet I wrote on the prompt for Day 12 at the NaPoWriMo.net website. This is a very nice form, and it sounds great to the ear. Writing triolets is also very enjoyable.
Carry On Tuesday #149 – “I have a little shadow”, the opening line from R.L.Stevenson’s My Shadow. And do you remember what a Triolet is?
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I have a little shadow
It goes around with me
It makes me feel too hollow
I have a little shadow
It shudders like a sparrow
longing to be free
I have a little shadow
It goes around with me.
©2012 Mariya Koleva
a lost and found poem
There are two today, a triolet and a shadorma:
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Triolet
How the hell did I lose you?
And how am I ever to find you?
It wasn’t that I tried to use you.
How the hell did I lose you?
My endless questions seem to confuse you.
I simply wanted to stay there beside you.
How the hell did I lose you?
And how am I ever to find you?
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Shadorma
I found and
Lost again that smile
That warmed me
Like a shawl,
So endlessly unfolded
And so motley dull.
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