Sunday Muse -- Flowering(??)

         

           (Photograph by Anita Sedberry 

      at Harold Ross Fine Art Photography, 

                    Bottom last photo)

   

     A Beautiful Companion; 

        an elegy poem 

Little Rose I'm so sorry you were picked 

Plucked you

Bright and beautiful 

From where you were 

Princess of the beauties 

You haven't lost your beauty 

Yet 

But your beaming color won't last here 

I gave you all the water I could spare 

Your roots and leaves 

They had to stay 

Stay where you were planted 

Here there's no soil 

Nor room for that 

Dirt we have plenty 

It's not the kind 

Kind you can use 

It's mixed with grime 

Dead bugs rotting away

Grime and flakes of skin 

Skin from us here within 

Please the think the positive 

Think of the joy every morning 

Here in the dark and dank 

Mornings while you last 

But it won't be long 

They'll throw you out 

Out with the rubbish 

Junky and poo 

Not like where your 

Kin will be 

With the other mulch to be 

So let's toast 

Toast to the joy of the past 

The sunshine and showers 

Childrens' oos and awes 

Old ladies so wise 

And the friendly gardener 

The one and only who 

Was to coddle and care 

Care for you 

Trimmed your nails 

And polished your petals 

Fed you well

Watered too 

All that you have lost 

But your beauty still shines 

The only pretty here 

Not for long 

Make the best of what we've not 

That's my plight as well 

I'll ask my keeper 

If we can go together 

Away from this cell** 

To the paupers' grave 

Out on the hill 

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**Note:   Jailed man picture: The Nicolas Fouquet replica prison cell in the Vaux-le-Vicomte  cellar where we visited in 2009.

                (click on picture to enlarge)

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 - Poem and bottom picture Copyright, Jimmiehov 2022 and 2011(read my poem here), All Rights Reserved 

 - Top picture is my photocopy used as a Prompt Photo for our work by Carrie ar The Sunday Muse #195, posted here, http://thesundaymuse.blogspot.com/2022/01/sunday-muse-195.html

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Day 18 ~~ NaPoWriMo ~~ Elegy Poem -- To Our Hibiscus

Elegy to our Hibiscus;

queen and pride of our back yard

[salutation]

O Hibiscus our lovely guard

You were the joy of our backyard

We miss you so much since you're gone

We honor you in praise and song

 

[predetermination]

What per chance was your fate to be

We didn't know not clear to me

Fate has made you subject to cold

Gone, dead forever, were so bold

 

[equity]

It isn't fair to us humans

To lose our prime joy of lumens

Forever we thought smile you'd bring

Mother Nature robbed us this spring

 

[destiny (question, conclusion or implication)]

For us you'll live still in two ways

Mulch pile welcomes, your fiber stays

New kid in town your beauties pin

And we still find joy from your kin

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 - Photo and Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2019, All Rights Reserved

 - I'm linked with Susie Clevenger in the Imaginary Garden at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2019/04/bits-of-inspiration-poems-in-april-bell.html 

 - and I'm linked with NaPoWriMo at http://www.napowrimo.net/day-eighteen-5/ 

 - I've never written an elegy before and had to investigate everything that I had time for, including a definition.  Googling helped a lot but then reading has to stop and test out what we've learned.  I liked the topic division [in parentheses for your understanding help and a guide for e while writing] from https://penandthepad.com/format-elegy-poem-8445992.html .

 - Quite a few suggested writing with didactic hexameter and didactic decimeter but I didn't do that.  And https://studybay.com/blog/how-to-write-an-elegy-poem/ was interesting in the use of  "Five Steps to Writing and Elegy" which was similar but different to the first site I mentioned.  Most recommend a quatrain with the rhyme scheme ABAB written in iambic pentameter for pleasant sounds when reading.  

 

[our backyard, Hibiscus on the left]