This is for the poetry people who humour me in my quest for the perfect tiny form of poetry. I discovered the Florette when I realised the thing I was calling a Florette was actually called an Essence. I also discovered that I liked the real Florette better than the Essence.
The Florette is too long to be a really short form as it needs at least two stanzas, but I like the extra long last line and the rhyming pattern. The Essence seems to be just a bit too short to cope with two rhymes, and for the internal rhyme to be random.
This form, that I am going to call a Florescence, is a compromise between the brevity of the Essence and the form of the Florette. As its name suggests it’s a poem on natural themes. It also panders to my obsession with the number three and multiples of three. It has two lines of six syllables and a third line of nine. The rhyme is at the end of the first two lines and on the sixth syllable of the third line. The last word rhymes with the first, like this.
Where the grass grows spring green
And kingcup gold is seen,
Beneath sky spring-swept cleanโruns the hare.
How clever, Jane!
It’s like a little story.
You do get more of a story than in a haiku, that’s true. I’m glad you like it.
Whatever you want to call it… it’s very good. ๐
Thanks Joseph. It’s a neat little form, I think.
Jane- I love this! I may try one soon.
I’m glad you like it. I think it could be an interesting form to play with.
Now I do like this form Jane well done! And the Florescence you have written is ace. ๐๐ And just for you
If I didn’t know before, I do now ๐
I love it! And the name too. Florscence! Perfect! ๐
It had to be, didn’t it ๐ Glad you like it.
Hello darling!
i miss you…………..
i just had too…
https://deletedangel.wordpress.com/2018/03/18/dream-florescence/
I saw ๐ How are you keeping?
Busy, i been watching a lot of P!nk!
Fun!
Clever, Jane, and a wonderful first florescence.
Thanks Ken. I’m pleased with this idea.
Thanks for the explanation; it adds to the appreciation of the poem. And I love combining the two words to make a new one, how clever!
Not a new word, but not used for a poetry form before as far as I know. It was a gift ๐
Right, I should have been more clear: how clever that combining those two words allowed you to give extra meaning to an existing word (and a lovely one that deserves to be used more, to boot).
I suspected that was what you meant. I just didn’t want to take the glory for creating a word that’s been around for hundreds of years ๐
You’ve given me another joy! A new form of short poetry! I’ll try it right now! Wonderful poem right there!
Good for you ๐