You guys amaze us every day with your talents. We just love being your editors. Whether you ‘kinda ignored the iambic tetrameter 'cause [you] couldn't make it work', or  ‘couldn't resist the slight twist', or "whimpered" about it, or whatever you did (including ignoring ALL the rules), you made us laugh, smile, ponder, grin, and cry. Here's the "Triolet" compilation, in reverse chronological order.  Enjoy, all Ye who enter here...
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Hope Among Blackened Beams

Arson fires destroyed your dreams,
My heart, it goes out to you all,
your world burnt apart at the seams
arson fires destroyed your dreams
but hope shines through the blackened beams.
One nation answers your help call,
arson fires destroyed your dreams,
My heart, it goes out to you all.

- by liz munro
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A Cricket Triolet.

Around, busy human places,
anticipating crickets wait
scaring 'GIANT' human races
around busy, human places.
Chirping 'THEY' jump in human faces,
Gleefully they hop their escape.
Around busy human places,
anticipating crickets wait.

- by liz munro
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Winter Scenes

Geese walk upon the frozen lake
Crystal limbs lie on pure white ground
Winter scenes in snow blizzards make
Geese walk upon the frozen lake
The fish now free from fowl partake
In swims while safe and quiet sound
Geese walk upon the frozen lake
Crystal limbs lie on pure white ground

- by Kathy Lockhart

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Come close, go away

Come here---no, stop---now go away
don't touch me, please---no, please come back
---come near and I will make you pay!
Come here...no, stop. Now go away.
(These are the things I've felt today;
I fear my train has jumped its track...)
Come close. No, stop...now go away---
don't touch me, please...no...please come back...

- by Sun.Moon.Stars.Rain
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Since We Need I go Beyond

Partugly amongst doll dresses.
Dancing 'til they turn to marble.
Carve kindred misteps to mantlepieces.
Partugly amongst doll dresses.
Exist only as child's trillion pieces.
Eyelash in fountains frames a fable.
Partugly amongst doll dresses.
Dancing 'til they turn to marble.

- by Shane Sebago
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Untitled

He's around the corner and his crying pain
He is filled with love
He wears no name
He screams for sunlight, his reward is rain
Yet he only has himself to blame
He's around the corner and his crying pain
He is filled with love

- by nature

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Writing in a block

My vocabulary it seems
Is put to the ultimate test
No supply of expressive means
My vocabulary it seems
Escapes me chasing other dreams
I guess my poor brain needs a rest!
My vocabulary it seems
Is put to the ultimate test!

- by Purple Phoenix

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A whimpering triolet

How I dislike repeating lines!
They always peeve and bother me,
They itch my eye and chafe my mind.
How I dislike repeating lines!
But you insist, dear friend of mine.
So, now I will forget, ya see,
That I dislike repeating lines
And that they peeve and bother me.

- by Aliena

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glide with me

the sirens wailed throughout the bay
southeast of the river side slide
the river, it shivered all day

the sirens wailed throughout the bay

now, alter the focus today
go wild on a slippery ride
the sirens wailed throughout the bay

southeast of the riverside slide

- by nepenthes

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Erased

a dim shadow laid on the stone
where the light's rays erased his face
and only night will cry and moan
a dim shadow laid on the stone
with each his death is faced alone
disappearing without a trace
a dim shadow laid on the stone
where the light's rays erased his face

- by melanie sue
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Temporal

Temporal Dawn's luminous lights
warm morning glories folded still.
They await relief from cold nights.
Temporal Dawn's luminous lights
arouse Terra's garden delights.
Bells now awaken from the chill.
Temporal Dawn's luminous lights
warm morning glories folded still.

- by melanie sue
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Three's a Crowd

A difficulty I foresee
when we are three but you are two,
and certainly there soon will be
a difficulty. I foresee
some moments you'll not share with me.
You won't deny it must be true.
A difficulty I foresee
when we are three but you are two.

- by Kaede
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Birds Of All Weather   

To flock or not to flock? Should we
Put up, shut up, give up on those
who try to put us down. To fly
to flock or not to flock. Should we
take flight, cast doubt, twitter, sky dive
back bite, unbend our wings, shrill sing.
To flock or not to flock? Should we
Put up, shut up, give up on them

Or not?

- by Tai
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The Shake       

With such swift speed, you gave me the shake,
Losing me back at the start. Of the start
I could never have grasped what you take
With such swift speed. You gave me the shake
Down your spine, ideas I can't seem to wake
On what you might mean deep down in your heart.
With such swift speed, you gave me the shake,
Losing me back at the start of the start.

- by Ducks
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A big triolet

When summer flowers rise so high,
small larks all need a place to nest.
Brown twigs abound, green grass nearby,
when summer flowers rise. So high
the golden sun marks hours in time,
and larks know when it's best to rest
when summer flowers. Rise so high,
small larks! All need a place to nest.

- by John Lambremont, Sr.

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Relentless

I teetered on its velvet lip
awash with perfume from within
unconscious of a fatal slip
I teetered on its velvet lip
and leaning forward took a sip
although it was a deadly sin
I teetered on its velvet lip
awash with perfume from within.

- by Caroline Grace

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Son Jeun Homme Reponde

I loved you then, I love you now;
I miss your touch, I miss your smile.
Is our love gone? I don't see how;
I loved you then, I love you now.
Oh, would that Fate will soon allow
Us to reune for no small while!
I loved you then, I love you now;
I miss your touch, I miss your smile.

- by Rob Graber

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A Triolet of yearning    

I love you now, I loved you then
I miss your smile I miss your touch
Is our love gone and forgotten?
I love you now, I loved you then
Can we be together again?
My heart, soul yearn for you so much
I love you now, I loved you then
I miss your smile, I miss your touch.

- by Jeune Femme Écrivain
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How I Wish

How I wish that we could marry
And not be waiting as we are
My love's careful he doth tarry
How I wish that we could marry
Wish that I loved Dick not Harry
He courted me but from afar
How I wish that we could marry
And not be waiting as we are

- by Pamel Brooke
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In your absence

In this purple shadowed light
The molten silence shrouds my soul
How lonely your absence feels this night
In this purple shadowed light
Forgive me this, my selfish plight
One moment without you, dare not I console
In this purple shadowed light
The molten silence shrouds my soul

- by Liam
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My Sleeping Beauty

In your sleep, I stroke your soft cheek
Watch you breathing loves rise and fall
Lying there innocence so meek
In your sleep, I stroke your soft cheek
In a whisper, softly I speak
Of the depth of my soul, my all
In your sleep, I stroke your soft cheek
Watch you breathing loves rise and fall

- by Purple Phoenix

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I Sense a Triolet

My distant dream has history,
Aside from constant times gone by.
I see it in the gallery,
And distant. Dreams have history.
My memories are close to me.
The future makes my heartstrings sigh.
My distant dream, has history,
Aside from constant times, gone by?

- by nepenthes