Will you come with me, where the nights
linger long, steeped flowering white
blooms, aromatic as primrose
red & full. The moon will stand close
cradling our words, silver & light -
Come & take my hands, oiled, stained bright
of saffron. They're yours to hold tight
when all else fails you, I propose -
Come with me
Be my first love & second sight
I'll bear sun's ire if we take flight
This forest, we'll garden a house
evergreen, lush of poems & prose
With sky as sole witness, tonight
Come with me
Posted for: Imaginary Garden with Real Toads - Language of Flowers
& D'verse Poets Pub - Rondeau Form - that's fifteen line poems using only 2 rhymes, set out in three stanzas of 5, 4, and 6 lines respectively, with a refrain that forms the opening of the first line and the last line of stanzas two and three. The rhyme scheme is Refrain-a, a, b, b, a - a, a , b, Refrain - a, a, b, b, a, Refrain.
