I thank the Poetry Sisters (Tanita Davis, Tricia Stohr Hunt, Mary Lee Hahn, Sara Lee Holmes, Laura Purdie Salas, Liz Garton Scanlon) for their enjoyable September Challenge. This was the first time I tried to write a tritina that was invented by poet Marie Ponsot. The tritina is not an easy poetic format for me but as one of the Poetry Sisters' #PoetryPals I enjoy engaging in their challenges.
Note: By the way, this was the first apple picking event that the sky opened up and provided a few drizzles in the orchard followed by a rainstorm during our outdoor lunch. Now, that is a memory we shall not forget.
It's Friday and time for the Poetry Friday Roundup with our host Amy Ludwig VanDerwater. She encourages us this week to try something new. Join me as I add my blog post to Amy's Roundup. Please read Amy's poem, You Choose You, that you will find here at The Poem Farm. Students will enjoy this poem.
You have an easy, narrative voice in this poetic form. It can be difficult to make the repetition flow naturally, but yours doesn't seem like it's even repeating! And I am loving all of this bounty and sweetness taking different forms. Brava!
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Tanita, thank you for your generous comments. It is important to me to see how the poems I create look in the public eye. Have a wonderful weekend and stay well.
DeleteWhat an enjoyable story and tritina, Robyn! So often, what seems like sour misfortune in the moment, eventually ripens into the fondest of memories.
ReplyDeleteTracey, thank you for your commentsl, especially the little bit of truth you shared in the last part of your comment.
DeleteNice how you were able to relate an enjoyable outing via the tritina form. Hooray for apple picking and fall's bounty!
ReplyDeleteJama, last weekend's apple picking event brought another surprise. I left my large umbrella at one of the fields so we had to rush to the car when the rain came. Thanks for joining me here and commenting.
DeleteThis one took me back, Carol! Picking apples with my now-grown son was a favorite activity, and I'm hoping to round up some friends to head to the orchard this fall.
ReplyDeleteSusan, I am circuling back to read the comments and I want to say that I appreciate yours. I am glad that this post brings back memories. Enjoy your fall outing with friends.
DeleteCarol, I love that the clouds are dark and yet still bountiful. That the rain, unasked for, made the outing more memorable. I found the tritina challenging! I love your use of "winced," and I extra love: "new apples with juicy sweetness hung below the clouds." A cool thing about the tritina for me was how the predetermined end words forced me to phrase things differently, like your apples hanging below the clouds. Gorgeous! Also, any luck with a roomie?
ReplyDeleteI am rooming with Leticia - you may remember her as one of my Wonderopolis ambassadors and friends. She wwill attend the Poetry Peeps Gathering with me. Thanks for asking. I will be flying in and out with Heidi. Thanks for your comments on my tritina. I am trying another one but you are right, it is not an easy format to use.
DeleteNicely done, Carol! I can picture those apples hanging under the clouds. Also like how you used the word "winced." I think I will have to try a tritina after reading all the wonderful examples.
ReplyDeleteRose, when the word winced surfaced,I kept reading it over and over. It was one of those moments sparked a light and gave me the go ahead to finish the poem.
DeleteSounds like fun. I can imagine the giggles!
ReplyDeleteThanks for joining me today, Linda, and thanks for your summering image poem.
DeleteWhat a joyful memory, and the building of the clouds and rain with your chosen words makes a reader feel it. Poems about memories with family members are treasures. I cannot help but imagine that your grandchildren will write poems with and about you if they do not already do so. I have a lot of apples on my porch...hopefully they will become apple pie jam! Happy continued fall. xo, a.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous. I am sorry that I do not know who you are but I enjoyed reading your comment and wondering what apple pie jam tastes like.
DeleteLovely! You made the form invisible and brought me along for a magical day of apple picking!
ReplyDeleteThank you Mary Lee for the comment. Being at an apple orchard with little ones is a wonderful way to spend a day even when it raines!
DeleteYou painted a vivid and inviting picture with your tritina, Carol! Yes, even the rain. :) Your poem just prompted me to turn to my husband talk about how sometimes in autumn I miss those days of taking the kids to the apple orchard and seeing its enchantment through their eyes. Maybe someday when I have grandchildren? :)
ReplyDeleteBelieve me Karen, when the grands come around you will bring a whole new set of memories to your life. Thank you for your comment, Have a wonderful week.
DeleteSuch a wonderful and unexpected surprise - those dark clouds and rain - for your outing and for us readers! Thank you for tackling this challenging form (I'm enjoying reading these poems) and for sharing it and your precious memory-making with us.
ReplyDeleteRobyn, thank you for your Sunday comment. I spent the day with the little grandgirls who were so excited to make apple pies with the Mom and me. That event offered another opportunity to write another blog post about the girls.My oldest one, Sierra (8) read the blog post I wrote about the orchard.
DeleteOh, wow -- tritina as travelogue! This is crisp and lovely, Carol. Thanks for playing along with us!
ReplyDeleteLiz, I like the idea of turning my tritina into a travelogue. I will have to share that world with the grandgirls to add to their vocabulary and who knows maybe they will write another poem with me (I think the cherita would be a good one for them.
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