Laurels – 15th August 2025

Run from your comforts
Pleasure is a charade
Reputation destroyed
Now’s the time to upgrade

Be no more prudent
Live where you are afraid
Don’t rest on your laurels
You must yourself persuade

A Breccbairdne inspired by a Rumi quote.

The breccbairdne is an Irish quatrain form.
– Quatrain (or four-line stanza) form
– Five syllables in the first line; six syllables in the other three lines
– Each line ends with a two-syllable word
– Lines two and four rhyme
– All end words consonate