Fantasy Flower
Alas not for the sweet lilly dear, for it is always near,
For as the minutes transform the beauty of dawn into the beauty of night,
The bloom they bare is of rare,
And as celebrated as the light,
And there, besides the lilly of day,
There is now a lilly of the night,
Just as sweet and just as bright,
The Rafflesia, the Rafflesia, a fragile, fantasy, flower.
About this poem
The poem is written in celebration of life, positively reflecting the transformative affect the passage of time has on our sense selves as other see us.
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Written on February 28, 2001
Submitted by simon.j.egerton on October 12, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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| Scheme | ABCBDBBE |
|---|---|
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 352 |
| Words | 69 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
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