Spectator triolet competition winners: ‘Penelope Cruz has told me no’

Your latest challenge was to compose a Valentine’s triolet. A famous example of the triolet is Frances Cornford’s catty ‘To a Fat Lady seen from the Train’ (‘O fat white woman whom nobody loves/ Why do you walk through the field in gloves’), but it was that ace trioleteer Wendy Cope’s rather more charming ‘Valentine’ that prompted me to invite you to take on this medieval form. It was a varied, funny and accomplished entry: you rose admirably to the challenge of breathing life into your triolets, despite the formal straitjacket. The winners below take £15 each.

Rosemary Kirk You weren’t the one I would have picked if it had been just down to me. My friend insisted, so I ticked. You weren’t the one I would have picked but when we met we somehow clicked. Dear Valentine, how could it be you weren’t the one I would have picked if it had been just down to me?

John Whitworth You’re much fairer than the fairest of the       choristers of Kings; When you move you move like Aphrodite       slipping through the waves.