Poem A Day In February 2026

The Clogyrnach is 8, 8, 5, 5, 3, 3 syllables with an AABBBA rhyming end words that is many times read out loud. This is our contest for our last week, beginning tomorrow.

A tricube format came originally from Mike Singleton and then Calvin London, who said, "Mike is a constant source of unofficial challenges and presents different forms of poetry. In a recent story, he talked about Tricube poetry. It is a very structured (three) x (three) x (three) format, the syllables for each of the three lines and three stanzas in the poem."

This week, our PaDiF has a Clogyrnach format contest, and we had an opportunity to try a tricube this weekend. Here are my Clogyrnach samples from my visit to the Mississippi River this morning and our conversations about hockey and finally a Tricube about spring.

Clogyrnach -

A Trip To The River Today

Snow in the trees, 6 degrees

a chill in the air, not much breeze

not a flower here

a bee or green there

anywhere

some warmth please

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So Much Beauty

It is beauty we deliver

At the Mississippi River

Take a walk to see

white all around me

then oh gee

Blue water

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We Won, In Overtime

Hockey moms are glad for the end

No time for any other friend

It is your whole life

and can cause some strife

Ask your wife

Please do bend

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Tricubes poetry -

Flowers bloom

Every where

In all rooms

here and there

🌷🌹🌷🌹

One hundred

plants, some red

Some are blue

🌹🌷🌹🌷

Who knew that

it could be

all day care

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