Day 215:

Jan 31- Ancient Verse, a Chinese form, existing until the “Modern” form around 200 A.D.  Used 5 or 7 syllables, sometimes 6 syllables. Used parallelism and balance. Any number of quatrains, xaxa, xbxb, etc. with x unrhymed.

The ancient rhymes recall life

Of love, of nature, like those

From past to future forward

Ancestry bloomed like a rose.