It’s the first Friday of the month, so it’s time for another Inkling challenge. This month, Molly challenged us to “Pick a poetry form you’ve been wanting to try and haven’t, and dive in! Here are a few that I’ve been wanting to play around with:: Clogyrnach and Rondelet (thanks and thanks, Alan!), and Tricube (thanks, Matt!), and Magic 9 , Feel free to choose any form you’d like., or more than one.. No pressure. Just play!”
I decided to play with a Tricube. This form sounds straightforward: three stanzas with three lines, each line with three syllables. As Matt mentioned in his original post, though, the trick is getting “what you’re trying to say in that tiny space!”
After many false starts and playing with many different ideas, this is what I came up with.
How to Write a Poem
Gather thoughts.
Collect words.
Write them down.
Count, count, count.
Read aloud.
Rearrange.
Read again.
Satisfied?
Share your heart.
Draft, © Catherine Flynn, 2021
Please visit my fellow Inklings to find out what forms they decided to play with:
Linda@A Word Edgewise
Heidi @my juicy little universe
Margaret@Reflections on the Teche
Mary Lee @ A(nother) Year of Reading
Then head over to Michelle Kogan’s blog for the Poetry Friday Roundup!
Reading to the Core 
Well done! I tried several tricubes, and even though short forms are usually my jam, I couldn’t get mine past the Hallmark stage. You picked the perfect topic!!
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Glad you jumped in and tried one – they really are deceptive, once you start working on them, aren’t they? But what a nice job you did with this, well done!
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I love how truthful this poem is; trying out words to make them fit is a challenge. I love the last line. Sharing our heart is the ultimate goal of every poem.
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I’m no poet but I like this challenge which seems to me like the nonette from some time ago.
Alice Horning
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You have definitely captured the process in the writing of many poems. This is a fun form that I always enjoy and need to try. “Count, count count” and finally “share your heart.”
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“Read aloud.”
“Read again.”
“Share your heart.”
Wonderful ingredients to writing, thanks Catherine!
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I love this tricube! I tried my first ones this week also. Trickier than one thinks. Thanks for sharing this… I’ll try out the other forms one day also.
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Ha–all that mechanical effort, linear steps, leading simply to the sharing of heart. Tricube is next up for me!
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I love your tricube, Catherine. You really got it!!! I think it is wonderful. This reminds me in a way of Laura Purdie Salas’s 15 Wol poetry because it really made me work to get the heart across is a concise but meaningful way. (And I was often truly impressed by the other poet’s work there!) So I am thinking I should give tricube a hearty try this month. Thank you, Catherine.
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This is one of the strongest tricubes I’ve read, Catherine. You really do say a lot here, and then, “Share your heart.” Fabulous ending!
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Oh, Catherine! I love this. It’s so practical and so beautiful. Love the sturdiness and the heart at the end.
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