F is for Forget-Me-Not’s
Pressed into a petite maidens hand,
a young sailor gifts his loved one
with bouquets of this sweet flower.
Forget-Me-Not he whispers.
The same flower brings good luck,
it’s said, to those young people
whose duty calls them far away from home.
Forget-Me-Not they say.
A long wedding gown,
a Mother’s happy tears flow
past channels of age upon her face.
Forget-Me-Not she cries.
A husband of many years
kneeling in the church, a casket
draped in her favorite flowers.
Forget-Me-Not he remembers.
About this poem
This poem was written for the 2023 A-to-Z Poetry Challenge (26 Letters of the alphabet in consecutive order). I chose “Flowers “ for my theme and this was #6 in the collection.
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Written on March 27, 2023
Submitted by ami.oferris on April 10, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XXX A XXX X XXX X AXA A |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 520 |
Words | 103 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 1, 3, 1, 3, 1, 3, 1 |
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