Chasing the Light of a Wonderful World Below

In this poem, I am working the interlocking rubaiyat, an ancient Persian form of poetry. As contemporary as Robert Frost, this quatrain form is made of four quatrains following an aaba rhyme pattern. Each successive quatrain picks up the (third) unrhymed line as the rhyme scheme for that stanza. I’m using this to capture the unmistakable beauty I once witnessed atop a mountain that overlooked the Uncompaghre Peak and National Forest, just northwest of Telluride. Words cannot adequately describe this heavenly view, but herein lies my attempt to capture its effect on me.