Sevena Flores' blog: WD Poetic Form Challenge: Interlocking Rubaiyat Winner

With the next poetic form challenge just around the corner, here are the results of the Writer’s Digest Poetic Form Challenge for the interlocking rubaiyat. Exactly 30 poems made the original cut, so it was difficult getting down to a Top 10 list and eventual winner, but here we are.

Read all the interlocking rubaiyat poems in the comments here.

Here is the winner:

Snowtime Blues, by William Preston

When winter winds return and blow,
my dreams are cloaked in indigo:
we walk again, once more a pair,
across the bright and crunching snow.

I feel again the morning air
and watch the sun emboss your hair;
the dried corn still perfumes my mind
and snowbirds join us, pair to pair.

These visions hold me in their bind:
the diamond ponds I left behind;
the cleanest sky I ever knew,
and there was you, beauty defined.

Now I know, whatever I do,
a part of me is there with you.
Frozen in gold, burning in blue,
a part of me is there with you.

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Congratulations, William! I love the images and sounds, and I love the blues.

Here’s a complete look at my Top 10 list:

Snowtime Blues, by William Preston
Newborn, by Taylor Graham
Visitations, by Jane Shlensky
Ars Poetica, by James Von Hendy
Ode on a Totem Pole, by rlhZbdPOET
Prop, by Karen Pickell
Survival Rations, by Pat Anthony
Ambition, by Connie L. Peters
Rubaiyat for D.B., by Bruce Niedt
For Elaine, by RJ Clarken

Congratulations to everyone in the Top 10! And to everyone who wrote an interlocking rubaiyat!

Look for the next poetic form and challenge just around the corner.

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Robert Lee Brewer is Senior Content Editor of the Writer’s Digest Writing Community, which means he maintains this blog, edits a couple Market Books (Poet’s Market and Writer’s Market), writes a poetry column for Writer’s Digest magazine, leads online education, speaks around the country on publishing and poetry, and a lot of other fun writing-related stuff.