Poem A Day In February 2026
This weekend, we tried a Tricube, then the contest for our last week is a Clogyrnach
The Clogyrnach is 8, 8, 5, 5, 3, 3 syllables with an AABBBA rhyming end words that is many times read out loud. This is our contest for our last week, beginning tomorrow.
A tricube format came originally from Mike Singleton and then Calvin London, who said, "Mike is a constant source of unofficial challenges and presents different forms of poetry. In a recent story, he talked about Tricube poetry. It is a very structured (three) x (three) x (three) format, the syllables for each of the three lines and three stanzas in the poem."
This week, our PaDiF has a Clogyrnach format contest, and we had an opportunity to try a tricube this weekend. Here are my Clogyrnach samples from my visit to the Mississippi River this morning and our conversations about hockey and finally a Tricube about spring.
Clogyrnach -
A Trip To The River Today
Snow in the trees, 6 degrees
a chill in the air, not much breeze
not a flower here
a bee or green there
anywhere
some warmth please
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So Much Beauty
It is beauty we deliver
At the Mississippi River
Take a walk to see
white all around me
then oh gee
Blue water
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We Won, In Overtime
Hockey moms are glad for the end
No time for any other friend
It is your whole life
and can cause some strife
Ask your wife
Please do bend
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Tricubes poetry -
Flowers bloom
Every where
In all rooms
here and there
ð·ð¹ð·ð¹
One hundred
plants, some red
Some are blue
ð¹ð·ð¹ð·
Who knew that
it could be
all day care
ð·ð¹ð·ð¹
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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Comments (3)
Great work on all of these. Did Mr. Mike proud.
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These were all such wonderful poems!