Day 27

Last but not least, here’s today’s (optional) prompt. Start by reading Robert Fillman’s poem, “There should always be two.” Now, write your own poem in which all the verses contain the same number of lines (whether couplets, triplets, quatrains, etc.) and in which you give the reader instructions of some kind.

I couldn’t find the Robert Fillman poem, so I learned what a triplet was and then proceeded to write what turned out to be a Haiku triplet – so I wrote a short light-hearted series of them.

How to perceive life

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If you seek to know

what and when and who and how

learn from life and grow

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If you want to see

look again but differently

until both agree

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If you long to hear

open far and listen near

loving without fear

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If you wish to be

humble as a bumble bee

buzz upon a tree

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And if you perchance

ever have the happenstance

grab with joy and dance

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For life flies and when

more than three score years and ten

pass, remember then!