This sidewalk's splayed with flowers in a pot.
Their elegance provides a touch of charm,
With floral sights that make the setting warm
To those who travel by this lovely plot.
For usually, more often than it's not,
An unembellished concrete is the norm.
This sidewalk's splayed with flowers in a pot.
Their elegance provides a touch of charm.
But I believe I like it quite a lot!
It sets a sense of peace without alarm,
Where lovers walk together arm-in-arm.
In fact, it may become their favorite spot.
This sidewalk's splayed with flowers in a pot.
Their elegance provides a touch of charm.
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Author Notes
A concrete sidewalk can be pretty plain, but a pot of flowers can really dress it up. This sidewalk had several of them with different plants and flowers. I tried to find out what these are. To the best that I could determine, they are geraniums.
This poem is a Rondel Prime Sonnet
A Rondel is a poem with two Quatrains followed by a Sestet where the first two lines of the poem become repeated as the last two lines of the next two stanzas (the second Quatrain and the Sestet). Sometimes the second line is dropped in the last stanza. It is usually in tetrameter, but is always iambic.
So, the rhyme scheme would be:
ABba abAB abbaAB (Prime),
or
ABba abAB abbaA (Classic).
The conversion to a Sonnet is quite simple. Change the meter to pentameter and separate the last two lines of the Sestet to make it a Couplet. In actuality the Rondel Prime, as introduced in France about 1544 by Clermont Marot, was a Sonnet. But the classic form became more popular. The rhyme scheme then for the Sonnet becomes:
ABba abAB abba AB.
This photograph was taken by the author himself on July 11, 2015.
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