A literary genre a Persian mathematician-astronomer of the 12th century made famous by only a handful by his hand.
Ruba’i*: The Poet, the Page and the Word in whichever Order?
The poet en face the page: unwritten words come to head
Words await tongues to be formed for poems to be read
Heavenly bodies stretch out seeking caravanserai
En route to gauge the extent of the ruba’i’s ruby red!
• ruba’i (plural: ruba’iyat): 11th-12th century Persian self-contained quatrain of 14 syllables rhyming aaba made popular in the West through
Edward Fitzgerald’s 1859 translations titled: "The Ruba’iyat of Omar Khayyam"
This collection of poetry addresses the nature of time, reflections on the natural world, the difficulty of loss,
contemporary social issues and gratitude for life.
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