Triolets

Happy New Year! 

2015 is off to a great start already. Here is my brand new Poetry Journal for 2015.

I need this journal because... It's time for the Poetry Seven to swing into action once again! This year we have set ourselves up to meet a huge challenge. We are going to work on a different poetry form every month, and post original poems on the last Friday of each month. I am excited and terrified at the same time. It's going to be a year of creative challenge for sure!

For January we all have been working on Triolets.  Wikipedia says this: "A triolet (/ˈtraɪ.əlɨt/ or US /ˌtriː.əˈleɪ/) is a stanza poem of eight lines. Its rhyme scheme is ABaAabAB and often all lines are in iambic tetrameter: the first, fourth and seventh lines are identical, as are the second and final lines, thereby making the initial and final couplets identical as well." Here is one of mine:

Joe's Fire

Joe, my BIL, was a firefighter for over 30 years. He is struggling with a degenerative neurological disorder something like ALS, called Multiple Systems Atrophy. He can no longer do most of the things he had most loved to do.

For all the fires you sent to ash

and all the hearts your heart kept warm;

For all the jokes your smile will flash.

For all the fires. You send to ash

your pain; it shatters with a crash,

still brave despite the coming storm.

Like all the fires you sent to ash,

keep all the hearts your heart keeps warm.

- Andromeda Jazmon 

Be sure to check out the Triolets of all the Poetry Sisters at their blogs:
Tanita , Sara, Laura, Liz , Kelly, and Trisha. We have worked together in several poetic forms before, when we challenged each other to write a Pantoum,  Renku, a crown sonnet , villanelles, and rondeau redoubles. I am looking forward to a really fantastic, fruitful year with these Poetry Princesses!

Today's Friday Poetry Round up is hosted by Trisha at Miss Rumphius. Ring in the New Year with some fabulous poetry!