"...write a ruba’i. What’s that? Well, it’s a Persian form — multipe stanzas in the ruba’i form are a rubaiyat, as in The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Basically, a ruba’i is a four-line stanza, with a rhyme scheme of AABA. Robert Frost’s famous poem Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening uses this rhyme scheme. You can write a poem composed of one ruba’i, or try your hand at more, for a rubaiyat. Happy writing!"
Contraction and Release (excerpt)
by Dot Hearn
A woman walking alone along
the shore,
among the salt water ribbon stains
spotted
with bits of earth and ship
and humans;
discards of the long receded
tide.
Her toes dig into the sand,
seaweed threads and strands
of yellow rope catch
then hang and slip away
as the foot releases itself.
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[note: this is a piece of a longer poem. But this poem may be appearing in an anthology and came out of a Writers' program in which I'm participating - so I am only posting part of it, to preserve it for the other purpose. And - obviously - I did not use the NaPoWriMo prompt today, although it looks like a good challenge for me!]
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