This is a picture of my wife, Karen. Now that her surgery is done, the hard work begins, as she must spend 3 months of rehabilitative physical therapy (PT). She has to do exercises twice a day, and goes to out-patient care twice a week. Between pain pills and icing, we try to keep the pain and swelling down. She has good days and bad days, but I do see great progress. We are hoping to go for walks again and maybe even bicycling, in the near future. That will definitely put a smile back on her face.

This poem is a Trijan Refrain.
The Trijan Refrain, created by Jan Turner, consists of three 9-line stanzas, for a total of 27 lines. Line 1 is the same in all three stanzas under it basic format, although a variation of the form does not repeat the same line at the beginning of each stanza. The first four syllables of line 5 in each stanza are repeated as the double-refrain for lines 7 and 8. The Trijan Refrain is a rhyming poem with a set meter and rhyme scheme as follows:
Rhyme scheme: a/b/a/b/c/c/d,d/c
Meter: 8/6/8/6/8/8/4,4/8

I used the standard format for this poem, repeating line 1 in each stanza. However, I modified the form by not using the first four syllables of line 5 as the refrain, but let them stand on their own. The total rhyme scheme carried through the 27 lines is as follows:
A,b,a,b,c,c, D1,D1,c - A,e,a,e,f,f, D2,D2,f - A,g,a,g,h,h, D3,D3h, where the capital letters indicate the repeated lines.

This photograph was taken by the author himself on November 11, 2014.

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