From the Mountains of the Sun

From the Mountains of the Sun

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From the Mountains of the Sun
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Southlands, Northlands

Southlands, Northlands

Poems of Winter

A. Christine Myers
Jan 09, 2023
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This first poem was originally intended to be in haiku form. Fairly quickly I discovered that I was trying to express a little more than I could well fit into three lines. So I turned to another syllable-structured form, the tritriplicata developed by Arjan Tupan. I liked the effect of essentially doubling the first and last lines.

At Dawn

Dawn stillne…

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