F is for Forget-Me-Not’s



Pressed into a petite maidens hand,
a young sailor gifts his loved one
with bouquets of this sweet flower.

Forget-Me-Not he whispers.  

The same flower brings good luck,
it’s said, to those young people
whose duty calls them far away from home.

Forget-Me-Not they say.

A long wedding gown,
a Mother’s happy tears flow
past channels of age upon her face.

Forget-Me-Not she cries.
 
A husband of many years
kneeling in the church, a casket
draped in her favorite flowers.  

Forget-Me-Not he remembers.

About this poem

This poem was written for the 2023 A-to-Z Poetry Challenge (26 Letters of the alphabet in consecutive order). I chose “Flowers “ for my theme and this was #6 in the collection.

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Written on March 27, 2023

Submitted by ami.oferris on April 10, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XXX A XXX X XXX X XXA A
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 520
Words 103
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 3, 1, 3, 1, 3, 1, 3, 1

Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris

Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris lives in Southport, NC. She is a published poet in Cameron Art Museum’s Writers Respond to Art Program and awarded the Certificate of Completion for completing the 2021 - 24 Hour Poetry Marathon. Her poem Wheels was chosen and published in the 2021 - 24 Hour Poetry Marathon Anthology. Her poem The Date has been chosen for publication in the 2022 - 24 Hour Poetry Marathon Anthology. She is a published author in Whisper’s & Echoes, an on-line literary magazine and in 50 Give or Take by Vine Leaves Press for her 50 word stories, Love, The Wedding and The Sleep Doctor. Also in Visual Verse with her poem Mother Earth. Ami is honored to have been published in Spillwords for her poem concerning current events, I Am Not A Man. Ami writes flash fiction, short stories, creative non-fiction and fiction as well as poetry. Her short story, Conversations With My Neighbor is published in Trouble, by Daniel Boone Publishing. Ami received Honorable Mention in Tales from the Moonlit Path 2021 their Halloween Issue, Abandoned Places Halloween Challenge, for her short story, Abandoned Memories. She has been published in Whispers and Echoes as follows - Rat-a-Tat-Tat-Tat - Wednesday 4th May 2022 Early Tulips - Wednesday 11th May 2022 Flying High - Wednesday 18th May 2022 She is currently working on her first action/adventure/paranormal romance novel. Ami is a member of NCWN (North Carolina Writer’s Network) and WFWN (Women’s Fiction Writer’s Network). She is a contributing member of several local writers groups including The Wilmington Write To Publish Group, Heron Clan Poetry, Women Writer’s Group and Living Poetry. Ami is known to her closest friends and relatives as Gypsie. more…

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