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Cold red nights ... a tritina.

Cold red nights

October leaves and Kansas cold
arrives with wind and hail, cool nights
that frost the green, reveal the red.

She picks a book she's read
before and holds her daughter as her cold
now mocks the voice of king and knight

who wear their regal robes of red,
still unaware tonight's the fateful night,
they never wake, congealed by cold,

cold Kansas nights that veil a blood red dawn.

© Kåre Enga 2007 [164.303] 2007-10-19

This is a tritina as described by b_boonstra in her entry in "Tritina"  in her wonderful reference: "Poetry Forms" .

It varies a tad from strict tetrameter: 8/8/8 (24); 6/10/8 (24); 8/10/8 (26); 10
It keeps the rhythm, though. To make the form fit exactly would twist and warp it. I'd rather have it flow well.

I'm writing 7-11 line poems for a friend (as a surprise). I plan on writing 80+ and writing them by hand in a book that was sent to me. So, I'm exploring short forms that I'm not familiar with along with others I seldom use, like: acrostic monorhyme; octet and nonet; whitney; palindrome; monotetra; mirrored refrain; trois par huit; pleides; tritina; gayatri; zloka; dirge; lune; ya-du; nine square; brazilian haiku; neuvain; rhytmus tripetitus; triad; diamante; septet; englyn milwr; jazzonet; virelay; sijo and ghazal.

I'm still offering 1,000 gps for reviews of "La Bella Vita"  [E], but not for long ... Cubby~On the Road Again! gave it a pretty pank ribbon. I'm sure Bella (who's three) would like it!

ME: More energy so far today ... but it isn't noon yet. The blue skies help, but the computer room is stuffy and I don't do stuffy well. As an example: I keep my bedroom window cracked unless it is bitter cold. Fortunately, we haven't had to put the heat on yet. It has been mild. The leaves are starting to turn, but they are behind a bit.

IMAGES:

Soft soak of soggy lawn; yellow among the green ash leaves; tall dark green waving in the breeze; long grass shimmering hi-ho silver; not a cloud in the sky, Tonto.

BLOGVILLE:

Hmmm ... apparently there has been a sudden death in the family of Melissa is fashionably late! and GeminiStar . If you are friends, you should contact them. Lots of stress ...

bmorgan seems to be a brilliant teenager. But is she too stressed out by her perfectionism? All perfectioneists should lend her a shoulder ...

Sheherazade will soon be 18 and is planning a masked ball. Too bad ... it's in England, I presume.

AL and Mavis Moog have valid points about this tag game. Me? I'm just too old and poopy. Always have been.

Just Jamie poses the oft asked question "Invalid Entry" . I could only stress that even as a young mother, she still needs to make time for herself ...

Kansas: 58º and clear as a crystal bell. It's 47º in Missoula and snowflakes are in Montana's forecast tonight. Meanwhile a medicane (mediteranean+hurricane) swept over Majorca and into Mucia in Spain. Just wanted you to know if you thought you were the only one with weird weather ...

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