I sit beside
a bookcase
laden with my life
The Charm of Birds
is the only gift from
my grandfather
I early read my
father’s G.B.S. complete
plays and prefaces
The camel teapot
contains half
my sister’s ashes
The group of geese is
my memento mori
to my mother
Books of hobbies
work and music
fill my shelves and brain…
© Andrew Wilson, 2024
Over at dVerse Poets Pub, merrildsmith in Meeting the Bar: Critique and Craft challenges us to write to the Triversen form.
*Three-line stanzas (Tercets). Each tercet is a sentence.
The tercets are grammatical, and they are broken by breaths,
the accents and rhythms of normal speech—two to four beats per line.
*Unrhymed
The ideal length is 18 lines or 6 stanzas, but even Williams did not always follow that rule.
Ideally, each line is two to four beats, or stressed syllable (not total syllables). Williams disliked iambic pentameter, but others have written Triversen poems with more beats.
Here are some additional points that are often mentioned.
*Alliteration—it contributes to the stress syllables
*Imagist
As Ain commented on my last poem, I seem to be going through a phase of poetry memoir…