Apr 7, 2016 NaPoWriMo, Original Poetry

Life and Death, and Silence and Sound (A Tritina)
©April 7th, 2016
By Vijaya Sundaram

The thrilling rain fills the air with sweet sound
Birds trill their joy aloud, and the soil sings
So, why do I feel so lost and alone?

For you are gone, and it’s the sky alone
Which feels my pain, the emptiness unsound,
Uncertain, and afloat – who’s that who sings?

Not I, but ’tis the grief of loss that sings
As I walk, silent, heart-broken, alone.
For with your death,  my silence replaced sound

So all alone, Life sings, without a sound.

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P.S.  I am SO happy, because I overcame my block against anything that resembled a sestina today (and it wasn’t too hard)!  I guess I’m going to have to do a real sestina now, and next, I’ll tackle a Villanelle!
YES!
Today’s prompt from NaPoWriMo:

Our (optional) prompt for Day Seven comes to us from Gloria Gonsalves, who challenges us all to write a tritina. The tritina is a shorter cousin to the sestina, involving three, three-line stanzas, and a final concluding line. Three “end words” are used to conclude the lines of each stanza, in a set pattern of ABC, CAB, BCA, and all three end words appear together in the final line.

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