NaPoWriMo or National Poetry Writing Month, is an annual project in which participating poets attempt to write a poem a day for the month of April.
Below is an attempt at a triolet, an eight-line poem in iambic tetrameter with the rhyme scheme ABaAabAB. The first, fourth and seventh lines are identical and the poem begins and ends with the same couplet. Because it was very gong-like and I can't, for the life of me, write a playful satirical poem which is supposed to be one of the best contexts for a triolet (now let me work on that...) all I could think of were meditation gongs. So here it is... a meditation poem that sounds like a melodic mantra.
The Breath
by Justine C. Tajonera
The breath begins the source of things,
it comes from deeply quiet song.
Faintly, you will hear that it sings.
The breath, it is the source of things.
At first you will not know it sings
but the sound is clear as a gong.
The breath begins the source of things,
it comes from deeply quiet song.
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