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government shutdown Muzdawidj

         

government shutdown Muzdawidj

The government is about to shut down.
Neither party is willing to back down
and so, we are bracing for the countdown.

Tyrants worldwide laughing at the U.S.
Our leaders have nothing left to discuss.
Willing to throw each other under the bus.

Our leaders continue to play such games.
On the TV, they call each other names,
Trump, shouts, throwing gasoline on the flames.



The Muzdawidj is an Arabic stanza form with three rhyming lines of 10 or 11 syllables, as described and demonstrated in the following link: https://poetscollective.org/poetryforms/muzdawidj/

Muzdawidj
Persian poetry influenced other nations and whilst Turkish poetry also developed it was slightly later and influenced by Persian poetry and was popular in Turkey until the fall of the Ottoman Empire.
Early Urdu Mathnawi was at first religious, but because of Persian influence included romance, adventure, and even secular stories.
The Arabic Mathnawi (Called Muzdawidj) has one major difference in that it is presented as a triplet; a. a. a. / b. b. b. / c. c. c.. pattern, rather than a couplet like the Persian version.