Millennia have come and gone
since warfare first made mothers grieve,
since spears from sticks were carved, then drawn,
millennia have come and gone
as ages pass and new days dawn
while teardrops spill and bosoms heave,
millennia have come and gone
since warfare first made mothers grieve.
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Author Notes
The triolet is a centuries old French poetic form first sung by troubadors in the Middle Ages. It consists of only eight lines in iambic meter with a rhyme scheme of ABaAabAB. The capital letters designate repeated lines, so that line 1 is repeated as lines 4 and 7, and line 2 is repeated as line 8.
I have decided that in 2010 I will compile a set of poems about war in various poetic styles.
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