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 besomething 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.
