NAPOWRIMO PROMPT 12 TRIOLET

12th April

For today’s prompt (optional, as always), I’d like to challenge you to write a triolet. These eight-line poems involve repeating lines and a tight rhyme scheme. The repetitions and rhymes can lend themselves to humorous poems, as well as to poems expressing dramatic or sorrowful moods. And sometimes the repetitions can be used in deceptive ways, by splitting the words in a given line into different sentences, and making subtle changes, as in this powerful triolet by Sandra McPherson.

http://www.napowrimo.net/day-twelve-8/

The Wayfarer
Dreamy eyes riveted to the horizon,
the wayfarer walked on, ears pricked
to the sounds so dear to him.
Dreamy eyes riveted to the horizon,
the vast meadows vocal with cheerful bird song,
he plodded on, heart throbbing.
Dreamy eyes riveted to the horizon,
 the wayfarer walked on, ears pricked.