Triquain…created by Shelley Cephas,
A Triquain is a seven line poem with syllables in multiples of 3 as follows:
3, 6, 9, 12, 9, 6, 3 This form is always centered.
syllabic,3/6/9/12/9/6/3,unrhymed,7 lines
ALWAYS Centered
Example Poem:
Interim Heaven (Triquain chain – Cephas)
The puppy
brought to the hospital
where the boy was dying adopted
him on first sight. The lad’s pain was subdued by drugs.
Nothing could subdue the instant joy
filling him as he hugged
The puppy.
The cancer
would not relent, and yet
the boy’s eyes were brighter than before
and he never cried another day. The puppy
snuggled when he slept and licked his face;
played gently other times
with the boy.
When the boy
passed on while he slept, the
puppy knew and whined, parents wept. In
tears a younger brother took the pup, who shut up
and licked away that boy’s tears. Wiping
grief away, replacing
it with love.
(c) Lawrencealot – May 7,2012
Visual Template:
As it happened, the Triquain above was the first one that I encountered.
It was not however, the first form given the name.
• The Triquain, found in Berg’s Pathways for the Poet 1977 appears to be an attempt at combining the haiku and Crapsey cinquain. It was created by L. Stanley Cheney and referred to in both the Caulkins’ Handbook and Pathways. This form comes a little closer to the purpose of haiku than some other haiku wannabees. There is another invented form also called a Triquain that appeared on the internet about 25 years later written in a syllabic heptastich.
The Triquain is:
○ a tristich, a poem in 3 lines. It is composed in 3 units, L1 introduces the subject, L2 expands and leads into action, L3 is the enlightenment or question.
○ syllabic, with 2-7-7 syllable count per line.
○ Titled, unlike the haiku.
stud by Judi Van Gorder
newborn
leggy colt struggles to stand
first of many challenges
Pasted from http://www.poetrymagnumopus.com/index.php?showtopic=1188#triquain
My thanks to Judi Van Gorder for years of work on this fine PMO resource.
My example
Inquiry (Triquan-Cheney)
questions
preceding words, as babble
most unanswered before death
(c) Lawrencealot – October 29, 2014