Challenge
This is a form of writing called a triptych. It consists of 3 syllables per line, 3 lines per stanza and 6 or 9 stanzas per poem. Any subject. Have fun with it. *******If you are looking at this challenge at this point, please also look at some notes I published this morning under the title Triptych Challengers...it has some additional information I'd want you to be aware of. Thanks.*******
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The Funeral, The Eulogy
turning to
the open
door, blind eyes
seeing red
and bleeding,
open mouths
screaming for
their mother.
in the house:
the air burns
lungs, whispers
scrape our ears,
broken notes
move through me.
persistence,
memory.
i'll go to
hell alone,
my childhood
is too deep
to return.
the cost to
diagnose:
forgetting
pieces of
who you once
remembered.