Today's poetry challenge at The Little Stuff of Life was to write a triolet--a type of poem with a tight rhyme scheme and repeated lines. I've always wanted to write a villanelle, a type of poetry that also has repeated lines and a tight rhyme scheme, but never managed. The triolet is shorter--perhaps it'll be my warm-up for a villanelle someday? Here's what I got out of it, anyway.

Blowing wishes away

Standing in the grass, blowing wishes away

What if she wants them back?

Why can't she hold them close, for a rainy day?

Leaping through the grass, blowing wishes away

Wide eyes glow as they fly where they may

The magic’s in not keeping track

Standing in the grass, blowing wishes away

She doesn’t want them back.

See links to more triolets at The Little Stuff of Life.