Age Fifty-Five to Sixty-Nine
I have been training on a Native American curriculum during those years. I have talked about storytelling, poetry, and healing.
The triolet first line of the poem repeats as the fourth and seventh line, and the second line repeats as the last.
The rhyme scheme of a triolet is ABaAabAB (the capital letters indicate the repeated lines). This means there are only two rhymes in the entire poem.
The lines can be any length and meter you wish, as long as they are all the same length and meter. Some use iambic tetrameter, which is four beats (stressed syllables) per line, usually of eight syllables. Published in The Writing Cooperative, Esther Spurrill-Jones
My Triolet, "Age fifty-five to sixty-nine"
Age fifty-five to sixty-nine
Native American lifeways
is how long I trained about mine.
Age fifty-five to sixty-nine
culture, values, our story line
and all the truth told in wise ways.
Age fifty-five to sixty-nine
Native American lifeways.
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An example of shorter lines triolet:
Water if life
Some say water is life
I believe this, I do
I am mother, and wife
Some say water is life
we may end up with strife
caring for water too
Some say water is life
I believe this I do!
About the Creator
Denise E Lindquist
I am married with 7 children, 28 grands, and 13 great-grandchildren. I am a culture consultant part-time. I write A Poem a Day in February for 8 years now. I wrote 4 - 50,000 word stories in NaNoWriMo. I write on Vocal/Medium daily.
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A French Meal
The virelai is a French poetic form with alternating rhymes and line lengths. Here are basic guidelines: + nine lines per stanza, + lines one, two, four, five, seven, and eight have five syllables + lines three, six, and nine have two syllables + the five-syllable lines rhyme with each other and the two-syllable lines rhyme with each other to make the following rhyme pattern: aabaabaab + the end rhyme for the short lines continues on in the following stanza + the final stanza’s short-line end rhyme should be the same as the long-line end rhyme in the opening stanza (to complete the end-rhyme circle) Note on stanzas: This form can contain as few as two stanzas to infinity (if you could write that many). Writer’s Digest, by Robert Lee Brewer
By Denise E Lindquist2 years ago in Poets
Getting Serious About Comedy (Part I)
If I were asked to remark on my life and the childhood that paved some road leading me to this point, I would have to say something about all the funny people who surrounded me for the last 26,872 days (and counting). Somewhere along that road, I became a big fan of laughter and the comedy that spawns it – and, I mean not only my own laughter, but the laughter of others, some of which I have actually been responsible for inducing.
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Comments (1)
Oh water is definitely life! I loved this format and your poems!