[Bards] and now for something completely different

[Cathy Polakoff]

Ok, that's cute! (I bet it would be a huge campfire hit, too.)

Anna

At 08:38 PM 01/23/2004 +0100, you wrote:
>Well, it's different for me anyway...
>I'm taking a break from sonnets to try some other poetic styles and the
>first one my teacher has set me on is triolets.  I've only done enough
>research so far to understand the basic structure of this style - I still
>need to look into theme and reason for them.  Anyway, I've come up with a
>trio of triolets that I thought some of you might enjoy.  I should mention
>that I neither confirm nor deny the validity of the statements made...at
>least not while the sun is shining. ;)
>
>~Alden Drake
>
>
>To hug a bard will fortune bring
>You can put this fact to the test.
>With stories to tell and songs to sing,
>To hug a bard will fortune bring.
>So with your arms about him (her) ring
>And you'll see that I do not jest,
>To hug a bard will fortune bring
>You can put this fact to the test.
>
>If you would give a bard a kiss,
>He would immortalize your name,
>In songs or poems such as this,
>If you would give a bard a kiss.
>So take a chance, don't be remiss,
>You'd have only yourself to blame.
>If you would give a bard a kiss,
>He would immortalize your name.
>
>If into bed a bard you take
>You're the luckiest lass (lad) of all,
>As I have heard the earth will shake
>If into bed a bard you take.
>For such grand music you will make
>As to fill any concert hall,
>If into bed a bard you take
>You're the luckiest lass (lad) of all.
>
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