Sometimes when I tap my pencil or my fingers, I feel the rhythm of a poem I hadn’t planned on writing. It’s like hearing music and wanting to dance, only there’s no music and I don’t want to dance. I think this might be like the call of the spirit wolf to the cub who spent hours on end reading poetry with a flashlight as a child and has now grown up – – and something rhythmic this way comes on a howling wind outside. Or something Iike that.
One of the poets in one of my writing groups – I believe it was Denise Krebs – introduced us to the tricube form a few years ago. It’s three stanzas, each with three lines,
each with three syllables. The rhyme pattern is a,b,c,a,b,c,a,b,c, and the meter is trochee with stressed/unstressed/stressed. These are just fun to write, especially using seasonal words. Try one today!
November Tricube
turkey stew
pumpkin spice
gravy boat
fireplace flue
windshield ice
hooded coat
vibrant view
saffron rice
.....did you vote??....
A Challenge for the week:
Fellow blogger Anita Ferrari inspires a new poem today. One I have not yet written. She writes of the six seven syndrome going around. You can read her post here. This week, I’m going to try several variations of six seven poems – – poems with six syllables on one line, seven on the next. Poems with six words, then seven, and even six stanzas and then seven. I’ll post them this week and then one again next Tuesday. Anyone up for the challenge?
Let’s write six seven poems this week! Who’ll join me??
Common Threads 
I love how poetry pulls at you! I love how you embrace the many different forms. And what a great idea – 6-7 poems!! A perfect way to embrace a 2025 thing! Go Kim, Go!!
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Mim,
I know this poet muse. I try to be cognizant of the world around me and have many snippets in my notes that want to be poems or that resulted in poems. Yes, Denise introduced the tricube. I’m not sure I can do that much counting for a six-seven poem, but I’ll try to find inspiration for one.
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Oh Kim,, you inspire me! I am thinking about the 6-7 poem idea even as I write; however, I really would love to challenge the 6-7 generation to put their signature phrase into meaningful syllables! GREAT idea that needs an internet article, ASAP.
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Kim, I try to keep my mind on the pleasantries of poetry as opposed to the boring and weighty to-do lists. You did a good job with the tricube and even got in the voting question. If I have time, I would love to try the 6-7 poem. I go to the foot specialist tomorrow to see if I can travel to the NCTE Convention in Denver. I am supposed to be presenting with Matt Essenwine, Allan Wolf, and Georgia Heard on the 20th.
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What a great idea – a 6-7 challenge. Love it. I may ask some students to try their hand at some 6-7 poetry.
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Thanks for not one but two new-to me forms: tricube and 6-7. Good reminder that inspiration is all around us.
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