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,
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12 April 20 0630
Looking for the quiet of the day
Before the thousand questions are asked
The hum of the furnace is my companion
Looking for the quiet of the day
Wishing my mind would be still
Allowing me respite
Before the thousand questions are asked
Looking for the quiet of the day
