How to write a Tritina.

• three stanzas of tercets (3 lines)
• one envoy of one line
• Lines may be of any length.
• The first line of each tercet after the first ends with the same word as the one that ended the last line of the tercet before it.
• The pattern of end words and stanzas is
o ABC, CAB, BCA, then a closing line uses ABC in that order

xxx A
xxx B
xxx C

xxx C
xxx A
xxx B

xxx B
xxx C
xxx A

xx A xx B xx C

• The repeated words are unrhymed.

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Heaven Only Knows
by Michael Romani

Rolling on the highway to heaven 
It seems there can be only
What there is; God only knows

Yes, one only knows what one knows
It's the surest path to Heaven
To accept this, If we could only

But, there we go again with only
And it shows in all that we try to know
Creating Gods to fit our versions of Heaven

Heaven only knows

(c) August 8, 2017 Michel Romani
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