[R E Bolick]

Hi, folks --

I'm trying to pull together as many good examples as I can before trying my hand at one.

So far, I have the following. Can you folks add others, and if so inclined, say why you think the example works?

AE Stallings
Why should the devil

Frances Cornford
To a Fat Lady

Wendy Cope
I used to think

Carol Rumens
This must be home

Gavin Ewart
I purchased the Ring

Robert Bridges
When first we met

Thomas Hardy
Around the house
How great my grief
For long the cruel wish
At last one pays the penalty

GK Chesterton
You might not be in love
When I tried to know myself
If I were a jellyfish

Sandra McPherson
She was in love

Taylor Graham
This house of things

Sara Teasdale
Love looked back
If you were Lady Beatrice
Beyond the dim Hesperides
Dead leaves upon the stream

Andrew Lang
Triolets after Moschus

Austin Dobson
I intended an Ode

David Anthony
Passing through the woods

Don Marquis
Your triolet should glimmer

Carole Bromley
Needlewoman

Mike Alexander
I look hard at the mirror

Rachel Hadas
Triolets in the Argolids

Marilyn Nelson
Triolets for the Triolet

Cheers,
BobB

[Janet Kenny]

Bob,
I'm very fond of Hardy's "Winter in Durnover Field".

[Anne Bryant-Hamon]

I think these are good examples: http://www.c-change.co.uk/dave/triolet.htm

[Mike Slippkauskas]

from the unjustly forgotten Ronald Bottrall:

Fibi Pronounced Phoebe

I considered a cat
But she looked like a dog;
Some suggested a bat,
I considered a cat.
She was certainly fat
And resembled a hog.
I considered a cat
But she looked like a dog.

[Roger Slater]

EXAMPLE OF A TRIOLET

To write a triolet,
follow this example.
The easiest way
to write a triolet
without going astray
is to copy a sample.
To write a triolet,
follow this example.

[Gail White]

I always rather fancied this one of mine, so hope I may be forgiven for sending it to you:

WORKER BEES

Staring at fluorescent screens,
Letting life pass by unheeded,
Little better than machines
Staring at fluorescent screens,
We'll pass on our altered genes
To generations who'll be seated
Staring at fluoroscent screens,
Letting life pass by unheeded.

[Jim Hayes]

You're well forgiven,it's one of the very best.

[Jim Hayes]

Bob,
just seen your's- it's concise, simple, instructive and maddenlingly clever.

[FOsen]

Michael Cantor's Summer Island, which tied with David Anthony's Winter Funeral (also excellent) for some prize or other, has to be one of the best -- unfortunately, I don't have a copy. Maybe someone will post it.

Frank

[Mary Meriam]

Thanks for the list of triolets, BobB. I was charmed by the Don Marquis:

Your triolet should glimmer
Like a butterfly;
In golden light, or dimmer,
Your triolet should glimmer,
Tremble, turn, and shimmer,
Flash, and flutter by;
Your triolet should glimmer
Like a butterfly.


Roger-Bob - You have a recognizable voice. Nice one.