Dropped bombs blast,
The city crumbles fast,
With mangled bodies the air hums haunting dirges.

A wounded mother sits still as her pain surges,
Alas! Her breaths struggle–with death her life merges,
Her suckling child smiling, seems at peace.

Though the child gets life’s lease,
Will wars cease?

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𝗣𝗼𝗲𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝗦𝘁𝘆𝗹𝗲:

𝗧𝗿𝗼𝗶𝘀-𝗽𝗮𝗿-𝗛𝘂𝗶𝘁
Created by Lorraine M. Kanter, Trois-par-Huit or three-by-eight is a poem containing three stanzas of 3, 3 and 2 lines OR 3, 2 and 3 lines. It follows the syllable count: 3/6/9 – 12/12/9 -6/3 OR 3/6/9 – 12/12 – 9/6/3 and the rhyming scheme: AAB BBC CC (doesn’t change whichever stanza pattern you use).

The last line of the poem is the title of the poem, which summarizes the entire poem