Trestina to say thanks to our daughter

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Thanks to our daughter for coming to help

My wife and I are glad that our daughter
Could come and be with us for a week. Our thanks
To her for solid, patient, cheerful help.


And she deserves some extra special thanks
For the things she gave up to come and help
When we needed her to. That's our daughter!

She missed a football game so she could help,
Left her husband lonesome, did our daughter.
For these things and more, and two long flights, thanks!
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A trestina is a brief form of sestina, of my own devising, in which three (rather than six) end-words appear in a prescribed order in the poem's title and its three three-line stanzas, as exemplified above for the words thanks, daughter, and help.
Copyright © 2012 by Morris Dean