body

omen in light syrup (florette)

embrace the babble, the tower

of babel, lovewords that flower

in drawers of glass, hooves that clink

eyelashes bat through old green ink, flashing power

come smell the wild grass shorn away

and once you have, maybe you'll stay

with blazing gifts i'll dazzle you,

the sun is one, also some blue, and me, that day

my sweetest of sugary sighs

flutter your way , gaze not disguised

brown blossoms rest deeply on green

spy wild horses, and i am queen, desert surprise

enjoy our sameness, senses roil

now i'm fire, yes, you're my oil

like ice we sparkle, purest light

your words charm me in darkest night, my earth, my soil

the florette, created by jan turner, consists of two or more 4-line stanzas. rhyme scheme: a,a,b,a meter: 8,8,8,12 fourth line requirement of internal (b) rhyme scheme, on syllable 8. like the outgrowing of a small flower, the forth line of each stanza is longer, and enwraps the previous lines. line #4 requires an internal rhyme scheme that rhymes the eighth syllable with the end of line #3, and continues to add on four more syllables than the other lines so that the fourth line ends rhyming with lines #1 and #2.

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