Haiku & Other Poetry, tutto e niente

the glow of the street lamp illuminates

Tina Stewart Brakebill

the glow of the streetlamp illuminates

a newfound road to journeys yet to be 

the dusky shadow of our well-worn fates 

 

the glow of the streetlamp illuminates

a wavering darkness that separates  

a shimmering of possibility

 

the glow of the streetlamp illuminates

a newfound road to journeys yet to be

 

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Our w3 challenge today was to write a triolet about something “ordinary.” I used our RDP word prompt (streetlamp) as my ordinary thing. Not sure how well I succeeded, as I don’t write a lot of rhyming verse, but it was fun to try and create the English version of this style!

A Triolet is an 8-line poem where lines repeat in a beautiful rhythm:

Lines 1, 4, and 7 are the same, and lines 2 and 8 are also repeated.

The rhyme scheme looks like this: ABaAabAB (uppercase = repeated lines).

If you’d like to make it a little trickier, try writing each line with 8 syllables (iambic tetrameter, the classic French style) — or challenge yourself with 10 syllables per line (the English version).

Ragtag Daily Prompt Thursday: Street Lamp
W3 Prompt #182: Wea’ve Written Weekly
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