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Quatrain Sandwich
Family
: Bring Them Outside by Treischel

Bring grandchildren outside with you,
and show them how to hug a tree
to demonstrate just what to do.

For kids today spend too much time inside
with Xbox, Playstation, or Nintendo,
while nature seems to make them terrified,
and laziness becomes the status-quo.

Exterior exposure too,
may bond a broken family.
Bring grandchildren outside with you!


Author Notes
These are 3 of mine. Here are: Isaac, Jeremy, and Skylah, from my daughter Aisha. We took these shots at Mounds Park, in St. Paul.

This poem is a Quatrain Sandwich.
A Quatrain Sandwich consists merely of a Quatrain sandwiched between two Tercets. Of course, a good sandwich has the center spilling out over the bread, so in a Quatrain Sandwich the Tercets are in Tetrameter, while the Quatrain is in a larger Pentameter. Of course, if you prefer a bun versus a slice of bread, then it would be a quatrain between two quintrains.

Photographs were taken by the Author himself on October 18, 2018.

     

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