Prompt 1- This poem is of the style Lai for Tale-A-Thlon 2025
The Lai is a French form. It’s a nine-line poem or stanza that uses an “a” and “b” rhyme following this pattern: aabaabaab. The lines with an “a” rhyme use 5 syllables; the “b” rhyme lines have 2 syllables.
Sunken voices rise
Breaking cowardice
Long lost
In desolate eyes.
Now gutsy and wise
Chains tossed
Of remorse and lies
Mended broken ties
Hope glossed.
