Spirited

(an interlocking Rubiyat)

As though the breeze in soft caress,
or as a gale's force,  no less-
my heart strings move to mouth, then praise
to Him who oversees, to bless.

As though the flowing ocean's ways,
and steadfast as the sun ablaze-
His Word in waterfalls, fulfills
the canyon's depth of numbered days.

A copse upon a woodland hill-
a pond of lilies, lulled and still...
a tide of light in fullsomeness -
yes...even for the whippoorwill.

(This Persian form of poetry is a series of rhymed quatrains.  In each quatrain, all lines
rhyme except the 3rd, leading to this pattern... a a b a  .    An interlocking Rubiyat is 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 1st stanza.)  Usually written in tetrameters or pentameters.)