trY and climb, but diagonallY

is for Ya-du

Again, turning towards the East for help.  Ya-du is a Burmese form. Like all eastern forms subject to very tight rules and regulations.

·        Not more than 3 stanzas
·        Each stanza of five lines
·        First four lines of four syllables each
·        Fifth line can have odd number of syllables – 5, 7, 9 or 11
·        Climbing rhyme words like so

---a

--a-

-a-b

--b-

-b---...

where a and b signify the rhymes and

There also must be seasonal references, like the haiku.

Tough or what?  But here’s me trying, the rhyme words marked out in colour:

The spring dawns break

like mistaken

fall, take this hand

between and in

yours, stand with me, lean into the sparrow’s song.

It won’t be there

anywhere soon;

the flare of sun

on sea runs once

even shorter than a birdcall in the mist.

Posted for the A-Z Challenge.