Sow
Seed your world
lavishly,
like Cajun
prairie grass —
sending stars
everywhere.
So beauty
will expand,
sow beauty.
©Mary Lee Hahn, 2022
I’ve only written a couple of tricubes. Until this one, I didn’t really like the form. Moral of the story: don’t give up too soon!
Thank you, Margaret, for “This Photo Wants to be a Poem,” from whence the image and inspiration came.
Buffy Silverman has this week’s Poetry Friday Roundup.
A(nother) Year of Reading 
I love it when a poem from This Photo shows up again on Friday. We are doing something right, at least something that feels right. I shared this with my students and one of them wrote a Di-cube. Is that a form? 2, 2, 2
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If Di-cube wasn’t a form before this week, it is now! Thanks for keeping up the weekly This Photo. It’s just the push…no, the gentle nudge I need to write, or write again!
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Love the beauty expanding in your wordplay of “sow beauty.” Your poem complements the expanding stars too. Lovely image, I wrote to it also, but time escaped posting, thanks Mary Lee!
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I love seeing posts from This Photo here, too! The inspiration in this community is so abundant. Your last stanza is especially powerful with the play on words.
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I read your poem yesterday on Margaret’s site, and had missed the so/sow connection which closes the poem so (ha!) well. Thanks for sharing it again!
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Sow beauty! Yes!! Loveliness.
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Mary Lee, your ending line is great. I think you enjoyed writing this tricube poem. I know I like the format.
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Lovely poem, Mary Lee. The closing thought “sow beauty” is beauty itself. Glad you stuck with the tricube.
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Love the wordplay in your poem, Mary Lee.
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I really enjoyed this image and thought of sending stars everywhere. In my classroom we’ve been talking about the monarch garden and how it’s still living because the seeds can land at any time and be ready to sprout in the spring.
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As a recent tricube promoter, it is pleasing to see it emerge yet again, Mary Lee. Photographic images frequently whisper to us to explore their potential poetic connections. What emerges is often quite diverse. Your poem ends with a powerful message- sow beauty. Tricube terrific!
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It was actually your post about tricubes that inspired me to give them another try! Thank you!!
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“sending stars everywhere” — what a lovely way to live a life! Love this one!
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“Seed your world
lavishly”
Oooh, I *love* this, Mary Lee!
The image of sending stars everywhere is dazzling, too.
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Look at you persisting through to the gorgeousness around the corner. This is quite special in its variety, its simplicity–the threes disappear into the beauty.
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Ohhh. I like this.
I may need to try a few of these. It seems like such a restrictive form and yet you’ve let the restrictions be a catapult.
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I’ve written some really bad ones. They are trickier than they look.
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This is lovely Mary Lee. I have never tried a tri-cube, but you make it very tempting.
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Tri-ed and true, Mary Lee. Well done! 🙂
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