Tricube Poems

The Library’s Creative Writing Circle was established three years ago for aspiring writers to meet. The group continues to grow with a culture of mentoring, collaborating, and welcoming new writers of any level of experience. Fittingly for the third anniversary of the program, the Creative Writing Circle recently took on a particular poetic form that has at its center the number ‘three’, and is known as a ‘Tricube’. 

A Tricube comprises of three stanzas, each stanza is three lines, and each line is three syllables. If you would like to explore sources on poetic form, as well as novel-writing, short story writing, creative non-fiction and more, you can find these in the Library’s collection by visiting our Creative Writing Guide.

Below are some tricube poems written by adult participants of the Library’s Creative Writing Circle. Will you try your hand at a tricube poem? If you do, please get in touch, and let us know how it goes.

What Books Do

Ideas develop the mind’s eye. Paper, ink, type, covers, pictures, words. Touch paper - touchpaper - neurons spark.

-    By Fiona Forsyth

By Fiona Forsyth

Take the Time Wet dog snores Rain pits glass Fire crackles Swallow scone Sip hot tea Stretch and yawn Take the time Tongue finger Turn the page

-    By Greig Parker

Love 

Are my arms Not yours to Care and hold? Hope is ours For in our  Embrace, we Need no more Provision

-    By Garry Sos Shore 

Daughter Drums

You love to  play upright An inner feel for you. We’re diamonds Are we not? Lots of luck. Perhaps I  Stay Away far. There is a Place in you Probably Good at music. Boom bam boom You like to play In your room.

-    By Chittima Chandaka 

You can fly

Girl on ledge limbs and all Does she fall? Flat on face egg—pie—shame full on fail (!) Fine, don't try. Live the fear. Stay stuck. Or . . .

-    By Farriz Mashudi