Alankar(Decor) -126 Poem by Indira Renganathan

Laugh Till The End(Envelope Quintet)

-a 5 line verse in which the center lines are enclosed by the rhyme of the outer lines.
stanzaic, a quintet may be a stand alone poem or can be written in any number of 5 line stanzas.
meter at the discretion of the poet.
rhymed abcba or aabaa or abbba, subsequent stanzas may link or continue the rhyme scheme: linked abcba cdedc or abcba deced / continued is simply abcba defed etc.
Used here are simply the three rhyme patterns of abcba, deeed, ffgff though it is a linked stanzaic poem
Laugh Till The End

When words beat you with ire
Beat them back with your words
When hands beat you much hurt
Beat back with yours skywards
But next laugh off that fire

What is life after all
Flickers of time's breathing
One day off..why seething
Your bad name bequeathing
Why blood and brawl, downfall

If only you can laugh
Life will then be not tough
If you can only grudge
Sure, life will then be rough
Fight, but judge next to laugh