Thursday, July 9, 2020

Poetic Form 34: Treochair

Free Fall

Let me go.
To fall forever freely,
like a Christmas morning snow.

Dreams coming
true. Trusting the bright colors
wrapped, a child’s joy becoming 

the chance for
us to shine sharply. See I
know how love unlocks the lores 

told by fires.
The heartbreak, hurt, and hunger
hold us, making us liars.

We say one
thing, but believe another.
Never knowing nothing more

then broken
relationships reeling right
back to shore, love not spoken.

But right now?
I wish we were never scarred,
so we would want only how

to let go,
and fall freely forever.
Snowflakes silently inflow.



Poetic Form #34: Treochair
The treochair is an Irish form. The poem uses tercets (three-line stanzas) 
with the first line rhyming with the third line. Each stanza a different rhyme,
 except the last stanza goes back to the first stanza rhyme. There are three
 syllables in the first line, seven in the second, and seven in the third. 
The last rule is that treochairs use a lot of alliteration.

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