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Timmy's Journal - 29. Poetry Prompt 18 - The Rubaiyat
These were a long time coming, and sonnets even longer. I may not have enough of romantic soul ...
The prompt: write one four-lined Khayyám-style Rubaiyat on the theme of 'your muse' (with or without references to drink and pretty boys ). In addition, write one multi-stanza Interlocking Rubaiyat based on the sights and feelings stirred in you by watching Ambrose Bierce's short story, An Occurrence at Owl Bridge.[4] Use the consistent line lengths you think are best for the individual poems, and follow the basic rhyme patterns for the two types of Rubaiyat.
Awakening Your Muse
The Hanging
Soldiers stand fast as the rope is prepared
the prisoner is quiet—his neck bared
then the rope is tightened, he sees his life
we hope against hope, his life be spared.
The trees are bare witnesses to this strife,
his death not marked with beating drum or fife
I stand at attention, his eyes on mine
his last thoughts i'm sure will be of his wife.
Over after a sharp tug on the line
and life will march on, the sun will still shine
he'll be buried deep in the cold cold ground
and remembered in his family's shrine.
How peaceful this scene and he looks around,
as he waits patiently, hands and feet bound—
afraid i am for my frightened soul—
and when i step off, he's gone with no sound.
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