Carefully chosen words: Quincain: Triad (after Crapsey)

Wednesday, May 04, 2005

Three things
That can turn your
Hair to white overnight:
Hair dye . . . painting the ceiling . . . and
fear.

The original Triad is posted at http://locock.blogspot.com/2005/04/forgotten-poet.html

Erin said...: I started to argue with this one, started to say you forgot kids - but fear took care of that argument!; 8:51 PM
Martin Locock said...: I would say that these work overnight - kids are quicker!; 6:33 PM
Martin Locock said...: I submitted it to Amaze, the cinquain journal, and it's been accepted. The editor felt "fear" in the last line was only one syllable, so I replaced it with "Erin", no, "children"!; 6:16 PM