Two types of wind encircle the earth
Trades, Westerlies and Easterlies
Blow steady and dependable
They let wind sailors venture forth
West-East, East-West, trade routes they plied.
Moving Saharan red dust fabled
Steering the cyclone’s rushing curse
Yet land too creates strong breezes
Sometimes too, quite seasonable
Hot, cold, blowing for all they’re worth
Wet, dry, flood, drought, make people flee
Winds can smash man’s plans to rubble
Or bring the life-sustaining rain
– Wind never the same – blows again…
Andrew Wilson, 2024
A ship sailing in very light winds leaving the Doldrums from “Sailing Round Cape Horn” by Gunther t. Schultz – an artist’s record of the last days of commercial sailing ships. 1954 – London – Hodder & Stoughton
Over at dVersePoets Pub, Laura Bloomsbury in Meeting the Bar: Critique and Craft, invites us to write a Trillonet on the subject of Wild Winds…
A Trillonet is a special form of sonnet comprising:
14 lines
4 tercets (3 line stanzas) ending with a rhyming couplet
rhymes scheme is ABC, ABC, ABC, ABC, AA (or BB or CC or DD)
in iambic pentameter of 10 syllables (5 feet) per line
or iambic tetrameter of 8 syllables (4 feet) per line