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]