since the tale ended a day early, please behold the first four quatrains of the rubaiyat of the billigits (translated by daisy kloverleaf)
billigits eschew all capital letters and punctuation marks
The full version will be coming to this site sometime this spring
Leila
i
gather ye all around the fire and sit
and hear the legend of the billigits
with ears wide open and pieholes kept shut
‘tis the best path to our wittily wit
ii
up in the sky is neither bird nor plane
neither ping nor pong nor shania twain
tis winged folk orange blue fair and wee
silence fools as i explainly explain
iii
wee folk eighteen inches from tip to toe
neither boy nor girl nor escargot
the billigits are always front page news
admiredly admired dontcha know
iv
they serve a witch one bewitchingly fair
they sing and dance to the autotune lyre
they wear hemp slippers that fall off in flight
they billigittingly stun all who stare
Saragun Springs 
Leila
This is AWESOME! If you weren’t a poet before (and you were), you are now!
It conjures up ghosts of Thurber, Edward Lear or Lewis Carroll with massive originality, plus cummings and others thrown in not to mention Omar K.! (As Bloom says, no poem can be written or read without another poem in mind.)
Looking forward to more, this is much LOL and very re-readable like all poetry!
Dale
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Thank you Dale!
One very helpful thing is the AABA pattern with ten syllables that Omar used. Perfect blueprint.
Leila
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Leila
This opening section of “the rubaiyat of the billigits” is narcotically addictive. The humor is life-affirmingly hilarious, the poetry adaptation is perfectly brilliant, and the wild imagination is (almost literally) out of this world. This one section alone already has the feel of a contemporary classic. No joke!
Dale
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Poetess
After a few more re-reads, I can proudly proclaim that my original judgement/s about this were (and are) totally accurate! This is a project that MUST be pursued and continue to come to fruition! Can’t wait for more whenever the time comes!
D
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Thank you Dale
and the billigits thank you too!
Leila
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Brillliant. the rhymes made me laugh and you mentioned the slippers. I love the slippers. Twain and explain is on a par with halleluia and do – ya in my favourite rhymes of all time. dd
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Thank you Diane!
The quatrain pattern easily allows for little sing song rhymes, like a children’s song. Only took a few minutes to do this due to the comfort of the pattern. Now, sonnets, however, appear to be awfully formidable. Maybe the boys will attempt one someday. If they survive the rubaiyat!
Leila
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I think one of the hardest was a villanelle – but yes the sonnets were hard as well. https://dianemdickson.wordpress.com/2014/09/04/villanelle-blimey-that-was-hard/
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I have written many poems, I think most of us have at one time or another but if you were pulling my finger ends out I reckon this would be my favourite. https://dianemdickson.wordpress.com/2018/03/28/the-queen-of-heavens-child/
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Diane
I love this poem! It reminds me of Victorian works like Tennyson’s, but updated for the “now” era. Fabulous work!
Dale
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that is so kind, Thank you. I had never thought to see my name in the same comment as Tennyson but I’ll take that any day.
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Thank you for the links Diane!
I once was big on Haikus, maybe the billies will too
I sincerely look forward to reading them. Hope the book is treating you well.
Leila
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