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Thanksgiving comes 'round but once in a year;
families gather to engage in prayer
for all new blessings received with much care.
Food will be eaten, much has been spread
it seems everywhere except on the bed,
a colorful view -- yellow, green and red.
There is so much food, it is hard to choose --
a bit of this, a bit of that -- a ruse,
fanfare tries hard to not indulge abuse.
Family time for all, with love is cast
to the forefront instead of placing last --
so much sharing to recover the past.
It's hard to slip even a word edgewise,
and many a word we must now excise;
do not interrupt, it would not be wise.
Keep this and that under your wide-brimmed hat,
because saying it might create a spat --
one surely would not want the guild of that.
Memories are made for all to recall,
and pictures are posed to hang on the wall --
festivities grand are enjoyed by all.
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Notes: A seven-stanza triplet is chosen for this poem. Both the English triplet and the Italian tercet consist of three-line stanzas. The Italian terset originated first and encompasses many poetic forms.
The original form consisted of three lines with ten or twelve syllables each and varied rhyme schemes. The more structured English triplet consists of three ten or twelve syllable monorhymed lines (monorhymed: rhymed with a single repetitious end sound). The poem may consist of any number of stanzas.
Other forms of the tercet include the haiku, the senryu, the Villanelle and the Terza Rima. The tercet in varied forms was favored in Romance literature of the Middle Ages.
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Sources:
Eds. (2019). Literary Devices: Definition and Examples of Literary Terms, “Tercet.” (3 November 2019). https://literarydevices.net/tercet/.
McKinney, Carla Jean. (25 July 2019). Pen & the Pad. “What is a Triplet Poem?” (3 November 2019). https://penandthepad.com/triplet-poem- 10004959.html.
Tinker. (2 June 2009). Poetry Magnum Opus. “III. Three Line Construction.” (3 November 2019). http://www.poetrymagnumopus.com/topic/1008-iii-three-line-construction/.
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Image Above: by Geordie @ pixabay.com.
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by tkbrown 