A poem is more than words on page

By THLaird Colyne Stewart, March AS 50 (2016)

A poem is more than words on page—

They are our souls laid bare to see

A glimpse of joy, of pain, of rage,

A poem is more than words on page—

They teach us words of knowing sage

And ask us all to better be;

A poem is more than words on page—

They are our souls laid bare to see.

Written as a triolet which was a stanza poem of 8-lines, written in iambic tetrameter and rhyming ABaAabAB. The first, fourth and seventh lines are identical, as are the second and final lines (thus making the initial and final couplets identical as well). The triolet is related to the rondeau.