The Rubaiyat

The Rubaiyat

by adaspoetryalcove

Carpe Diem #1294 Twilight 

Here is the first quatrain of “The Rubaiyat”:

AWAKE! For Morning in the Bowl of Night
Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight:
And lo! the Hunter of the East has caught
The Sultan’s Turret in a Noose of Light. 

© Omar Khayyam (Tr. Fitzgerald)

This verse For some reason reminded me of Orio and Scorpios mythology

the winter hunter
at spring’s approach
chased from the sky

sunriseIMG_3460.JPG

The first shafts of light
pierce the veil of darkness
shroud lifting

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