With soil and sunlight

Seedling to great height

It grows

Stem standing upright

Designed to invite

Your nose

Bask in colors bright

I gift you tonight

A rose

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Author's Note: The Lai poetry form is of French origin, and it consists of one or more nine-line stanzas, and an aabaabaab rhyme scheme. The lines with an "a" rhyme have five syllables, and the lines with a "b" rhyme have two syllables, so it is 5-5-2 repeated three times.