22. Flowers
See the flowers, they bloom everywhere,
On rocky land or on fertile plain,
They blossom in the hot desert air,
And even on the icy mountain.
Crocus and daffodils are for Spring,
Lillies to the hot Summer belong,
Pansies and asters, Autumn do bring,
Bright primroses in Winter beds throng.
Flamboyant hibiscus love the sun,
As does the fragrant showy jasmine,
Calliandra from long stamens is spun,
Plumeria hides aroma within.
Parijat scatter like stars on ground,
Zephyranthes dot the monsoon grass,
Coloured moss roses like weeds abound,
While forget-me-nots form large blue mass.
Sakura is life ephemeral,
Gulmohar sets the forest aflame,
Orange blossoms for love eternal,
The large fragrant peonies stand for shame.
They brighten days, chase away the gloom,
Wherever planted, the flowers bloom
Day 22 is for a Chanso.
Chanso poems are adaptable to the needs of the poet. This French form consists of five or six stanzas with an envoy that is roughly half the size of a regular stanza. So what is a regular stanza?
That depends on what the poet decides. The main rules are that each line of the poem should have the same number of syllables, and each stanza should be uniform when it comes to length and rhyme scheme. Beyond that, the poet has final say.
So a chanso could consist of 5 tercets followed by a couplet written with an abc rhyme scheme for each line; or it could be 6 12-line stanzas with an intricate rhyme scheme that is halved to a 6-line envoy.
~Robert Lee Brewer on Poetic Asides (www.writersdigest.com)~
For my poem, I went with simple quatrains - five quatrains with an envoy of half that stanza, i.e. two lines.
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