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Kim Nelson's avatar

This was a great morning read, Melanie. And I adore your simple, direct triolets -- perfect for they reference a children's story. I can see them in a collection of poems for kids.

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Melanie Bettinelli's avatar

Thank you so much Kim. I love the idea of a collection of poems for kids. I have a collection of fairy tale poems that are not child-oriented. But maybe I could do more fairy tale triolets... I like that idea.

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Kim Nelson's avatar

YES!!!!!

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Leah Libresco Sargeant's avatar

Seeing your freewrite set against its daughter poems is such a gift!

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Melanie Bettinelli's avatar

Thanks, Leah. I'm glad you liked it. I'm really getting the sense that people like seeing glimpses of the composition process, so when I find traces like these I'm going to try to include them. It's fun detective work to ferret out how things come together. In a way it's just as mysterious to me, especially for poems I don't even remember writing.

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Margaret Ann Silver's avatar

I love your triolets (and the longer, non-triolet poem). Thank you for reminding me of "At Tara in this fateful hour..." I read L'Engle's version over and over when I read "A Swiftly Tilting Planet" (which was often). It's as wonderful as ever.

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Melanie Bettinelli's avatar

Thank you, Margaret. I also read A Swiftly Tilting Planet frequently. I had the box set of the trilogy and deeply identified with Meg.

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