Alankar(Decor)-155 Poem by Indira Renganathan

Dear Wind(Rubliw)

The Rubliw is an invented form created by American poet Richard Wilbur
then named and defined by Lewis Turco, author of The Book of Forms among other works.
A short metric poem was sent by Wilbur to Turco
containing a challenge to name the verse form framing the poem.
Turco responded in kind and named the form by reversing the spelling of Wilbur's name.
He also wrote humorous, didactic messages in the same form to fellow poets Dana Gioia and Sam Gwynn.
The Rubliw as created would fall under the category of Light Verse.

The Rubliw is:
a poem in 9 lines.
metric, iambic pattern, L1 monometer, L2 dimeter, L3 trimeter, L4 tetrameter, L5 pentameter,
L6 tetrameter, L7 trimeter, L8 dimeter and L9 monometer.
monorhymed.


- - - - - - - - - - -Dear wind- - - - - - - - - - - -
- - - - - - - - -Tell all so kind- - - - - - - - - - -
- - - - - - - Who talk too much so blind- - - - - - -
- - - - - - -Of positive thinking in mind- - - - - - -
- - - - -Forgetting that life with negative twined- - -
- - - - - Sequent like glued day and night bind- - - -
- - - - - - - My love too half way blind- - - - - - -
- - - - - - - - -Gone with you wind- - - - - - - - - -
- - - - - - - - - - Dead thinned- - - - - - - - - - -