We set up the picnic table
just yesterday; thinking
we would dine in the garden.
Forgetting that yesterday's garden
falls on today's table -
what were we thinking?
It's as if the maple trees were thinking
they were kings of the garden;
offering their fruit to the table.
So here we sit, thinking of the garden on our table.
- Andromeda Jazmon
The poetry stretch this week at Miss Rumphius was "to write a tritina, a 10-line poem composed of three, 3-line stanzas and a 1-line envoi. Like the sestina, a tritina uses an end-word scheme instead of a rhyme scheme." Here are the other poet's results. The Friday Poetry round up is hosted by Maya Ganesan at allegro. Enjoy your first weekend in May!
14 comments:
Those are maple bits? Interesting -- there are so many kinds of maple trees.
Visiting from Poetry Friday. This is a great word picture. I know what it is to come outside and find such "offerings" all over.
Aah enjoyed this, made me smile, I could just picture you and yours sitting thinking at the end.
Love the shift in perspective. Very nice!
Thanks for introducing me to the form. Enjoyed this. I always enjoy your work. I need to find more to say.
Beautiful. Offering and poem about it.
Very nice. That picture is cool.
Oh I love this. I also love that it came from the "stretch" which I have not done in the past but now think I am going to try for the coming year.
Great pic and poem from a girl whose maiden name is Maple (and I do love trees!)
cool! What an interesting poem type!
Love the form! It feels a little like a waltz with a flourish at the end.
Thanks for all these great comments! I was working like a fiend on my last grad school project yesterday and missed out on the poetry tour. I am going to try to catch up this weekend.
These are the Maple tree's flowers, which fall off all in a rush this time of year. Then they start dropping the seed keys, and then the sticks, and then the leaves... *sigh*. It's always something!
When I grow up, I want to write poems and take pictures like you do! These are beautiful images!
Carol
I am delighted by your tritina! Will have to give it a whirl myself. Thanks!
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