Triolet Trilogy

With Joy
With joy we take this chance to meet
to find a love we pray is true
and hope fate makes our lives complete.
With joy we take this chance to meet
two strangers passing on the street
about to find a love that’s new.
With joy we take this chance to meet
and find a love we pray is true.


With Doubt
With doubt our love has been denied
our faith in trust and hope betrayed
the fate that comes when truth has died.
With doubt our love has been denied
by secrets we could not abide
and games we both should not have played.
With doubt our love has been denied
our faith in trust and hope betrayed.


With Sadness
With sadness I must say goodbye
I wish that I could stay with you
But fate has sung time’s lullabye.
With sadness I must say goodbye
a searing teardrop in my eye
that shows my love for you was true.
With sadness I must say goodbye
I wish that I could stay with you.

Author's Note: A triolet is a one stanza poem of eight lines in iambic tetrameter. Its rhyme scheme is ABaAabAB. Tthe first, fourth and seventh lines are identical, as are the second and final lines. I originally wrote With Sadness, posted earlier on this blog. I then thought it would be interesting to do a trilogy with a beginning, middle and end, following the same theme. Let me know what you think.