FIRST PLACE WINNER - 30 Day Image Prompt Contest - 30 writes in 30 days. AUG - SEP 2013 |
The Watchkeep The cold wind sweeps across the plain and yet the watchkeep, with disdain, stands in silent observation unyielding in its stoic reign. Stone reflects the long duration since the tower’s first formation. Weathered courses, worn smooth by time, standing to protect a nation. Its honor shows in moss and grime and long lost odes in verse and rhyme recalling battle glory days when it stood proudly, in its prime. Those days, long gone, lost in time’s haze, still linger in its valiant gaze as it awaits the time again when men will sing their songs of praise. Day 9 – "30 Day Image Prompt Contest - CLOSED" Prompt: Image 2 (watch tower) Form: Interlocking Rubáiyát - The Rubáiyát is a Persian form of several quatrains. An "Interlocking Rubáiyát" is a Rubáiyát where the subsequent stanza rhymes its 1st, 2nd, and 4th lines with the sound at the end of the 3rd line in the stanza before it. In this form, the 3rd line of the final stanza is also rhymed with the 3 rhymed lines in the first stanza. (aaba bbcb ccdc final:xxax) The lines are accentual-syllabic, usually tetrameters or pentameters. stoic ~ unmoved by joy or grief |