Monday, October 19, 2015

Monday Poetry Stretch - Tritina

I'm working on an ekphrastic poem and have been playing around with a number of different forms as I write to the image. Right now I'm playing with the tritina.

Here are the nuts and bolts of the form.
10-line poem made of three, 3-line stanzas and a 1-line envoi

There is no rhyme scheme but rather an end word scheme. It is:
A
B
C

C
A
B

B
C
A

A, B, and C (all in the last line/envoi)
You can read more about the tritina at Poetic Asides.

So, the challenge for the week is to write a tritina. Won't you join me? Please share a link to your poem or the poem itself in the comments.

3 comments:

  1. Fall

    Falling leaves, orange, red, and yellow.
    On the branch a quickness of squirrel.
    There’s a shiver and a quiver in the trees,

    a watchfulness about the trees.
    Sky is still blue and sun is yellow,
    but someone goes gathering nuts, a squirrel.

    Fall means winter, and the squirrel
    dashes up and down the trees.
    He crackles through red and yellow.

    Yellow leaves fall past the squirrel in the trees.

    —Kate Coombs, 2015
    all rights reserved

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  2. Oh this was fun.

    The Fall: A Tritina

    How can this not be fall?
    Covered by the dust of leaves.
    Trees, trying to hide naked limbs.

    Can you see how bare those limbs,
    How far from the trees they fall,
    What a maple looks like as it leaves

    All modesty behind, and those leaves
    Piled at its feet, shivering limbs,
    No fig to cover its catastrophic fall.

    The Fall of Man, leaving Eden with all limbs bared.

    ©2015 Jane Yolen all rights reserved

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    1. Such excellent use of plays on words. Poor naked maple--and people!

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