When it seems all hope is faded, gone,
We must make up our minds to carry on,
As heart beats ever steady as a drum,
As doting doe spurs on her newborn fawn.
Hope’s a minstrel with a song for some
Whose ears can hear those gentle fingers strum.
No matter how mundane the morning dawn
The mystery of all is it has come.
Text: This is a collaboration with Jenna (Revived Writer) who wrote the first rubai in bold red as part of Jilly’s September Challenge — Casting Bricks. I have also linked this with dVerse Open Link Night. Grace is hosting.
Poetry, Short Prose and Walking 
Thank you for completing my challenge! I like your rubai, especially the first line, about hope being “a minstrel with a song for some.” Well done!
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Thank you, Jenna! I like how rubai sound. I am glad you picked that form.
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music of hope by which i remember the movie ‘whiplash’. great write by both of you.
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Thank you! I am glad you enjoyed this collaboration!
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Marching to a soulful drum. Thankyou.
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Thank you, Roslyn!
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I love the opening words to this poem. They really resonate with me, Frank. The whole poem is lovely.
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Thank you, Robbie! I am glad you enjoyed this collaboration.
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Nice take, Frank. Hope is a song that is played to all but heard only by some. Interesting to consider dawn as mundane comparing to the mystery which hope brings.
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Much of what we take for granted, and hence is mundane, is full of mystery that we don’t always see much like we don’t always hear the song of hope. Thank you, Colin!
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Smoothly rendered Frank. It blends very well together!
Hank
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Thank you, Hank! I tried to follow Jenna’s lead in meter, rhyme and sense.
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A lovely collaboration. Whenever I read your work I hear it spoken in your voice Frank!
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Thanks, Peter! I was going to record this, but since it was a collaboration I left it as just the text.
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Well done by both of you… the rubyat is an excellent form for a collaboration… I used to do these once a month with 6 friends, and once we did a rubyat.
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It does make for a good collaboration because of the interlocking rhymes. Thanks, Björn!
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Well said, wise friend. Well said.
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Thank you, Colin!
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Well done collaboration.
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Thank you, Eugenia!
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A wonderful collaberation. I especially like the message in the second stanza….the wonder of the morning is that it has come. So true. Miracles abound!
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The morning may be mundane but it is wonderfully so. Thank you, Sherry!
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Collaborations are so much fun.
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Yes, they are. Two separate pieces are pieced together and a third appears. Thank you, Judy!
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I really like this, a lovely collaboration.
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Thank you, Alison!
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Love the lines “Hope’s a minstrel with a song for some/Whose ears can hear those gentle fingers strum.”
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Thank you, Bryan! I was blanking on rhymes for “drum” until “some” popped up and then so did the rest.
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This is quite good–lifted my spirits 🙂
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Thank you! I am glad it lifted your spirits!
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🙂
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Uplifting and delicate… a winning collaboration.
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Thanks! I enjoyed working with Jenna’s poem.
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A beautiful collaboration Frank ~ I specially admire: Hope’s a minstrel with a song for some~
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Thanks, Grace! I am glad you liked that line.
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Beautiful completion of this one, Frank! Your writing is so compelling and fluid every time.
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Thank you, Jilly! And thanks for setting up these challenges.
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My pleasure! 🙂
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Colors of Hope
Will Dark in Strength
Grace of Love Swells up
lit
color
of Hope
lifts Windows
Bricks open again..
wiNks.. i rather do iMac..:)
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It may be like a wave that keeps getting better at what it does. Thanks, Fred!
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Surfs
uP..:)
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An excellent collaboration, Frank. First line is a beauty!
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Thank you, Sara! I am glad you liked that line.
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That was awesome, Frank! A new form for me to see. You 2 wrote well together.
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Thanks, Bekkie! I don’t know if the form as a name, but I tried to follow the iambic pentameter and the rhyme pattern.
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As you know I write in rhyme a lot but some of these rhyming forms are tricky!
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