One of last week’s poetry class assignments was about using couplets, tercets, and quatraines. Here was my submission:
When I must learn something anew
I read about it through and through.
If I fail, I don’t ask why
Instead, again, I try, and try.
Wait… I do ask why, that I might learn
Before I take another turn
As expertise I want to earn.
Sometimes I take a little break,
To give my mind a rest.
Then finishing, if it’s not great,
I know I’ve done my best.