(This is a conversational Triolet poem. The requirements of this fixed Triolet
form are straightforward: the first line is repeated in the fourth and
seventh lines; the second line is repeated in the final line; and only the first
two end-words are used to complete the tight rhyme scheme. Thus, the
poet writes only five original lines, giving the Triolet a deceptively simple
appearance: ABaAabAB, where capital letters indicate repeated lines.)
GRIEF
"Do you know how it feels, to be caged by grief - concrete
and palpable?"
Asked the mad woman in the street.
"When all is lost, and even beauty no longer beautiful"
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