Below the ground moles chuckle,
Velvet ears, dim eyes, claws paddle,
Soft sweet whispers in a huddle.
Below the ground moles chuckle,
But o’er the threshold moley straddles,
Smells the fragrant blue cheese truckle.
Below the ground moles chuckle,
Velvet ears, dim eyes, claws paddle.
Polly Robinson © 2013
A triolet is a stanza poem of eight lines. Its rhyme scheme is ABaAabAB and often all lines are in iambic tetrameter: the first, fourth and seventh lines are identical, as are the second and final lines, thereby making the initial and final couplets identical as well.
01/02/2013 at 00:54
Oh, how lovely!
01/02/2013 at 00:56
I have a vision of them in a circle chuckling and eating blue cheese
01/02/2013 at 00:57
I like it! Are you going to try your hand at that Persian torture thing on Dverse today? I am just crazy enough to have a go…
01/02/2013 at 00:59
I love Ghazals and have been meaning to have a go … maybe … maybe … bet you’ll get one done before me
01/02/2013 at 01:46
Hah, we’ll see. I have just moved from “No way in HELL,” to “maybe…”
01/02/2013 at 05:41
Charming! I can see the little moles right now …
01/02/2013 at 07:20
There’s no picture with this one as none of the ones I found seemed to give the right sort of … feel (?) tone (?) well, they didn’t show cute moles … and these are cute moles
Thanks for commenting Jamie.
01/02/2013 at 07:21
Your piece sparkes the imagination. No photo needed!
01/02/2013 at 07:23
… sometimes things are best left to our imagination, ‘eh? Thanks Jamie
01/02/2013 at 05:58
Oh joy! Another style to try!
01/02/2013 at 07:21
heh-heh … lovely to see you so keen Joe
01/02/2013 at 08:06
Charming! It almost makes one want to take one in as a pet. Okay, I said almost!
01/02/2013 at 08:07
heh-heh … it does make them sound cute, I guess
01/02/2013 at 09:50
The Triolet is a fun form and I absolutly love this moley one!
01/02/2013 at 13:17
Aw, that’s nice of you to say so, thank you Libby
01/02/2013 at 14:09
I like Moles! I DO!!!! I think they are REALLY cute and they don’t bother me AT ALL!!!
01/02/2013 at 14:14
You’re such a kind soul Jasmine ~ good to see you really like the little mole boys and girls
01/02/2013 at 16:01
Aw, I really like this – little moley smelling cheese…
01/02/2013 at 17:26
Stay away from my cheesE! k.
02/02/2013 at 00:33
They’d eat the lot k!
01/02/2013 at 19:01
I am not a fan of moles. We had one (or more?) destroy our yard! However, your poem makes them sound cute.
02/02/2013 at 00:03
True ~ but you’re spot on, they can utterly devastate lawns and gardens. A fave UK comedian, Jasper Carrott, did a hysterical skit about moles in his garden ~ it involved a double barrel shotgun
02/02/2013 at 00:05
Believe me . . . I wish I had one. Lucky for Mr. Mole, he moved on.
02/02/2013 at 00:34
… and for you
10/02/2013 at 20:39
He he – brilliant – I’m working on a mole poem too – mine aren’t as cute and as well behaved as yours!
10/02/2013 at 21:42
There’s another version of this one coming soon … and I fear the moles aren’t quite so cute …
10/02/2013 at 21:44
Ah they must be distant relatives of my moles
10/02/2013 at 22:55
2nd cousins, I think