Day 28 2024 ~ How to write a “Tricube Poem” for #NationalPoetryMonth ~ "30 poems in 30 days"

Don’t let the simplicity of this poem fool you. It may be somewhat short (each line is ONLY 3 syllables) but the constraints of this poetry form make it very challenging.

It’s a mathematical poem, of sorts, created by Phillip Larrea.

TRICUBES!!!

Only three rules ~

• Each line contains EXACTLY three syllables.
• Each stanza contains EXACTLY three lines.
• Each poem contains EXACTLY three stanzas.

 

Just three, three, and three.

 

So we're kind of talking about 3 to the 3^rd power, three times, right? No other rules – rhyming is NOT needed, there is NO special meter

BUT YOU MUST CHECK YOUR SYLLABLES – ONLY THREE SYLLABLES per line.  

It’s surprisingly tricky. Here are several I came up with (one this morning, and two a couple of years ago), but I’m expecting great things from y’all because every day you participants never cease to amaze me! (I see most of them in our closed FB group – you need permission to join) but wonderful poems are offered each day during poetry month, so let’s see what you can do with this. Remember, 3 syllables per line, 3 lines per stanza, 3 stanzas per poem. THAT’S IT – if you share a poem with 5 or 6 stanzas or more than 3 syllables per line, I’m sure it would be a nice poem - - - of some sort or another - - - but it wouldn’t be a “tricube.”

 

 

Come here, child
Sit with me
Gran loves you
 
Let’s hug tight
We’re happy
Together
 
Come again
When you can
Stay longer

 

© 2024 Stephanie Abney

 

 

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Tell me why
Fleeting clouds
Hide the sun
 
It might rain
Maybe not
Wait, a drop
 
Angry clouds
Make a fuss
Now I’m soaked

 

© 2022 Stephanie Abney

 

 

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Tide rolls in
Squishy sand
Crabs run out

Castles built

Sunburned face
Time to go

Memories
Made today
Last forever

 

                                                            © 2022 Stephanie Abney

 

 

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*** Also, if you choose to post your poems on your own blog ~ that’s awesome. But PLEASE don’t just copy and paste my daily instructions, but rather post your poem on your blog or your FB wall or wherever AND LINK BACK TO THIS BLOG POST for others to come here to read the instructions. I’ve spent considerable time researching the poetry forms and writing them up to share with you. Thanks for respecting my work.