Alankar(Decor)-99 Poem by Indira Renganathan

Coconut-ty Dream (Rubaiyat)


Rubaiyat means, prosody (in Persian poetry)a verse form
consisting of four-line stanzas.

Rubaiyat:
stanzaic, written in any number of quatrains that are interlocked by rhyme.
A series of the rubai quatrains is called a Rubaiyat.
The lines are of approximate equal length
rhymed. Interlocking rhyme scheme aaba, bbcb, ccdc, etc

A rubai is, though intended to stand alone, usually a suite of rubai (rubaiyat)
composed and arranged in a standard rhyming order.
In a single rubai, the rhyme scheme of aaba is used with enjambment
(the continuing of a sentence or thought)between the 3rd and 4th lines.
The usual meter used is iambic pentameter.


Coconut-ty Dream

Tired, he slept under the coconut tree
Dreaming, just started climbing up the tree
Of his routine fear the tree so shivered
And swayed wild unknowing itself to free

And he took out the sickle and severed
One by one the bunches dropped down slivered
And lo, high up the tree rested his soul
Lessoned not to die of a dream quivered