FAITH, NATURE & INSPIRATIONAL

JOYS AND TRAVAILS—a titrina

JOYS AND TRAVAILS: a tritina—award winner


We often lament about our travails,
Unmindful that we do also have joys
That are denied to so many others.

But while we are ignorant of others’,
We are too conscious of our own travails,
Forgetting to thank God for all our joys.

No, life is not meant to be full of joys.
We should try to pass our joys to others,
And share with them some of their own travails.

Travails and joys are shades but each other’s.


* Written as a tritina in pentameter

* First prize awardee in "Invalid Item" , "RME's Tritina Poetry Contest", hosted by ♥ The Maveric ♥

* The Tritina is a ten- lined poem, divided over three tercets and a single line. The end words of the three lines in the first tercet are repeated as per the following scheme:

A/B/C
C/A/B
B/C/A

A,B,C


M C Gupta
24 December 2005