Anniversary Phone Calls

trilonnet Two thousand seven was the first of "seventeenth" phone calls he's made. "Hello, what cha doing?" his line. Each month our computers coerce with rapt attention we persuade our faces and minds to entwine. The conversation unrehearsed we Skype as two friends on crusade to prove that our thoughts still align. As the day approaches, I thirst for updates on his escapades. The seventeenth is by design. March seventeenth is our birthday - Pat, my twin, lives in Paraguay. written 28 March, 2016 A trilonnet is a form of poetry, created by Shelley A. Cephas. A type of sonnet it is a 14-line poem divided into four tercets followed by a couplet. The tercets are unrhymed but the couplet is rhymed. The tercets use a linked rhyme scheme, rather than rhyming within themselves. Two patterns of linking rhyme are suggested: Form 1: ABC ABC ABC ABC DD or Form 2: ABC CBA ABC CBA DD. Iambic tetrameter or iambic pentameter is suggested.