RUBY

What on earth posessed me to add the word "ruby" to my list of ideas for my 365 project?!  Well, I can tell you I spent a LOT of time thinking about it before executing this little cinquain.
(poetry form using 5 lines and following these rules:
                     1st line: a word -- noun
                     2nd line: two words related to subject
                     3rd line: three adjectives to expand word
                     4th line:  four word phrase related to word
                     5th line  one word that is a synonym for word

I was inspired to create another tag cinquain...but will wait to post it until after the next calligraphy meeting.  We are challenging ourselves to "Let's do Lettering" and set creating a tag cinquain as this month's project.  I hope the other members come with some too!  Looking at it now, I see several less than wonderful lettering issues.  Perhaps I will re-do it soon.  Not sure.  I am nearly ready to jet off to visit my 8 grandchildren and so art-making is on the back burner for a short while.