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Yuni Jung's avatar

If I just follow your poems, I believe my brain will be immune to any cognitive decline. AND I love your photos.

Carole Roseland's avatar

I can’t guarantee that, but I do like to challenge myself sometimes, so perhaps that keeps me thinking. Of course, I don’t know where I set my keys, though. Last time I lost them, they were later found in the bathroom sink!

Loren Wassell's avatar

Nicely done. A worthy introduction to the tretina for me.

Carole Roseland's avatar

Thank you, Loren. It’s my first foray into this form, and I just happened to think up three words that are sort of connected. Another mind bender!

Kathleen Hobbs's avatar

Carole, every time I read one of your works I always learn something new. Not only are your poems and writing interesting and entertaining, but educational.

Carole Roseland's avatar

Thanks for reading and restacking, Kathleen! This was another little experiment.

Kathleen Hobbs's avatar

You’re welcome, Carole

Wendy  Gray's avatar

Love it! LOVE IT! Oh, the message is a fantastic one, Carole! Really liking this form as well.

MUCH LOVE! ~Wendy💜

Teyani Whitman's avatar

Love this. The first photo of the fog surrounding the tree is deeply lovely

Bing Tashkent's avatar

Well done and everybody loves the trees. Have you ever tried to make your own poetic form? I'm not doubting the validiy of the tretina, just wondering if I could try to scheme out some new poetic forms like it has only one line and a half syllable or 8 lines of palindromes only beginning with the letter "e", maybe the kind of poem schemes only quantum physicists could write...

Carole Roseland's avatar

I actually do that quite frequently, make my own form, but I don’t have names for them. I actually didn’t know about a tretina before I did some research into forms—there are tons!

Bing Tashkent's avatar

I never heard of tretina before I read yours, truth be told. I can imagine people have been making them up since they started being able to write so there must be an entire encyclopedia's worth of them to document and somebody would publish a book on them all.

Carole Roseland's avatar

I’m sure there are many books, but there are also endless lists in poetry sites online. This is probably why so many people just write free-form verse, so they don’t have to follow any rules.

Fred Basset's avatar

Great photos.

Carole Roseland's avatar

Thanks, Fred! It’s been unusually foggy these days (and nights). I was driving up north in Michigan over the weekend and it was had to know where the road was. It’s a good thing they had big arrows where there were major curves!

Susan Roubal's avatar

So true, Carole. Instead of ground fog, up here we saw a lot of steam rising off the lake on supercold days. Far out on the distance you could see heavy veils of mist pulling water up into the clouds for future lake-effect snow!