Little lost
dragon lies
on park bench.Lonely looks
on while kids
play-run past.Not her kids.
Not yet, now.
Until... FOUND!
We found the little pink dragon in the local park the other day. If you look closely, she is a souvenir from the Polish city of Krakow. You can see it written on the dragon's stomach. The Smok Wawelski or Wawel Dragon plays a part in the legend of how the city was built. So, this lost little dragon evoked also some dreamy thoughts about travel. It has at least travelled all the way from Poland to come here.
Over on Instagram, I posted a tritriplicata poem about this, and I intended to share that here today. But I changed my mind when I was challenged by Lisa Bolin to write a tricube. A poetic form that has, like the tritriplicata, the 3 at its core. She has herself written a very beautiful one, which also ignited quite a bit of fernweh in me. I took up the challenge to write a tricube. The tricube has 3 stanzas. Each stanza has 3 lines and each line 3 syllables. What do you think about it?
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Poetry Elsewhere
On Medium, Dennett contributed to our publication with a wonderful poem filled with positivity. There’s light at the end of the tunnel, and Joy in Light.
Poppy Dillon does a challenge on Instagram, #escapril. A poem every day. She has a lot of great poems, but this one is special. It reflects on all that lost data stored in data centers around the world. The title? 12,006 emails.
I believe in what some people would refer to as Karma. What goes around comes around. And in all the cases it doesn’t work, it’s simply good to help Karma a hand and write. This poem by Suzanne Kiera Anthony touches on the same topic: Dear Karma.
As you can imagine, I really like poetic forms based on numbers. This one, like my tritriplicata, is inspired by the number 3. It’s a tricube, where, as told by Lisa N. Bolin, each line has 3 syllables, each stanza has 3 lines and each poem 3 stanzas. Lisa herself shared this one on Instagram, and I really love it. The rhythm is amazingly fitting for the theme of the poem.
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Nicely done Arjan. Heartwarming too. Thanks for sharing Lisa’s poem too. I know how short poems with exact standards are deceptively difficult to compose. Good work.
Just lovely, Arjan! Thanks for giving it a go :) I hope the little found dragon likes it’s new home! Thanks for sharing my poem 🙂