My Woodland Path

Rubaiyat about the peacefulness of walking a woodland path. Example for Oriental Poetry C.

I walk along a woodland path each day,
where nature's calm keeps stress and woe at bay.
It helps when I've been feeling down and low
from all the trials life's put in my way.


To see the trees and flowers that there grow,
makes all my worries melt away like snow.
It is my very favourite place to be
at one with nature, feeling its sweet glow.


Sometimes it seems like I can even see
the very peacefulness shine out at me,
as though each plant gives off a warming ray
of light and love, to let my soul be free.









Notes ▶︎

Written as an example of a Rubaiyat for "Invalid Item" , Round 85.

I've used an interlocking rhyme scheme and iambic pentameter. There is enjambment from the third to fourth line in each stanza (and some other places, which is not neccessary, but okay). There could have been any number of quatrains, I've written three.

Entered in "Poetic Traditions Poetry Contest "  Round 82
Lines: 12