For Real Toads: the florette form

At the online writers’ group Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Kerry introduced us this weekend to a poetic form called the florette, a form created by Jan Turner for its delicacy of rhyme and meter, thus:

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Ruthlessly eschewing delicacy and even grammar, I have created the following florette, full of sound but dreary, signifying nothing much.

   

A child's bedtime

a florette with petals removed, by Kay L. Davies © 2012

  

hidden beneath a tale should be

something a dreaming child can see,

so leave her with a cheerful thought

or you may rue what you have wrought unknowingly.

    

no monster stories late at night

to give a little girl a fright:

let her have her lighthearted dreams

full of flowery girlish schemes, which plan she might.

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To read other poems in the florette form, written by serious, dedicated poets, please visit the Garden.