Alankar(Decor)-95 Poem by Indira Renganathan

Cruising For The Lost Moon(Terza Rima)

The Terza Rima is-
narrative and/or lyrical poetry.
usually in iambic pentameter or in tetrameter.
stanzaic, with any number of tercets that interlock by rhyme.
The poem is concluded by a single final line that rhymes
with the 2nd line of the preceding tercet.
rhymed in an interlocking rhyme scheme aba bcb cdc ded...
until the conclusion when the end line rhymes
with the 2nd line of the last tercet.

Cruising For The Lost Moon(Terza Rima)

That day dawned on a dark spread sea deadly
The moon was lost, he was bewildered much
Frenzied at once he cruised advertently

Submarined in twirls of strong currents'clutch
Strived and strived, he could not spot his dear moon
Manic he grew up and down tried too much

That day was dark spread sea without the moon
Thickets of sky were clashing and pouring
Love failed, hopes let down, gone mad he so soon

Yet ashore later Luna came smiling