Le Voyage Magnifique

Esprit de Corps

Esprit de corps is forged before
orientation is complete
by sergeant's drills without the frills,
where bravery and challenge meet.

Esprit de corps so far from shore,
engaging with the ocean's moods
with only brief bits of relief
during R & R interludes.

Esprit de corps in peace and war
for everything we hold dear.
The bond we share still lingers there
beyond military career.

Notes on the Triquatrain form of poetry ▼

The Triquatrain is a four line stanza with alternating internal rhymes and end rhymes, as described and demonstrated in the following link: http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/triquatrain.html

Although this source credits Robert L. Huntsman with creating the form, I question that attribution. While his examples were copyrighted in 2006, Edgar Allan Poe used the same pattern in the first four lines in each stanza of The Raven, which was published on September 25, 1849: https://poets.org/poem/raven .