Summer Triptych poem

 Hello and Happy JULY! It's Poetry Friday, so be sure to visit Mary Lee at A(nother) Year of Reading for a "Poems of Protest" Roundup.

If you'd like to discover what I'm writing this summer, I invite you to check out this post I wrote on companion novels over at Smack Dab in the Middle!

This week's ArtSpeak: PICASSO poem is a "Summer Triptych." I was researching Picasso's art that includes birds, (umm, that Smack Dab post might explain why!) and I kinda fell in love with this piece! 

I decided to go with a triptych because triptychs are surely Picasso-approved, as they are a kind of construction and deconstruction, meant to show something in three parts where each part works individually but also together as a whole. 

This struck me as the thinking Picasso employed in his cubist work...and since this piece represents him making that transition, it seemed a good way to approach the poem.

I've written other triptychs, perhaps the best-known one is "Triptych for a Thirsty Giraffe," which appears in Dear Wandering Wildebeest: Poems From the Water Hole.  

Have you written a triptych?? Or encountered a triptych you enjoy? I'd love to read it!

Summer Triptych

1

black bird black bird
unbroken moonlight

2
green leaves green leaves
a shatter of faith

3
blue sky blue sky
tiger stalks a bed of daisies

- Irene Latham