Life ~ Interlocking Rubaiyat

Buds blooming into innocent petals

Dew of happiness, bees nettles

Sways in love along with the breeze of youth

Basking under the sun blossom settles

With each season wisdom grew is a truth

And each year I withered also a sooth

Fragrant memories so close to the heart

All is meaningless however you sleuth

Greeting with love before we part

To bloom and fall was in life's chart

Life is a cycle and not a ladder

Always to remember sweetheart

Interlocking Rubaiyat. Here are the rules of the interlocking rubaiyat:

The poem is comprised of quatrains following an aaba rhyme pattern.

Each successive quatrain picks up the unrhymed line as the rhyme for that stanza. So a three-stanza rubaiyat might rhyme so: aaba/bbcb/ccdc. Sometimes the final stanza, rhymes all four lines.

Lines are usually tetrameter and pentameter.