Sometimes I get so distracted, that I become an addlepated poet, but must not keep my wife waiting, when I promised to meet her at the boat landing after her trip out with friends. But the walk from parking lot to dock was so intriguing, I might tarry too long. Mostly fiction, for the story. You figure out which part is real.

The flowers are Cinerarias, a flower that is part of the Sunflower family, native to South Africa, although this variety is a hybrid - Pericallis. It is common in the Canary islands, the Azores, and Madeira. The like a cooler temperature range between 50 and 75 F, so they flourish best in early spring and late fall, but do not like hot, dry climates. These were potted, along a walking path in Minnesota.

This poem is a Spensarian Sonnet.
A variant on the English Sonnet form is the Spenserian Sonnet, named after Edmund Spenser (1552 -1599), in which he uses an interlocking rhyme scheme of:
abab, bcbc, cdcd, ee.
A Spenserian Sonnet does not appear to require that the initial octave set up a problem that the closing sestet answers, as with a Petrarchan sonnet. Instead, the form is treated as three quatrains connected by the interlocking rhyme scheme and closed by a couplet. The linked rhymes of his quatrains suggest the linked rhymes of such Italian forms as the Terza Rima that uses interlocking Tercets. It creates a lovely pattern that stretches out the b and c rhymes quite nicely.

This photograph was taken by the author himself, in May, 2012.

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