Moon Flowers
#1 of Sonnets
Moon Flowers 2013 by Eldyran
Style: Elizabethan sonnet
Verse: Iambic pentameter
Lines:14
Rhyme Scheme: ab, ab, cd, cd, ef, ef, gg
Is there no dream lovelier from bypast?
Does any memory compare as pure?
To gaze upon a garden unsurpassed
At its center, a golden jackal fur.
As dew drops glisten over lily stems
Slender paws snip and prune under moonlight.
Her gaze is rapt; eyes like glittering gems
But not for me; perhaps the cruelest bite.
Her form is tight; her bosom supple still
Her muzzle bunched with concentration stern.
The night is endless, moon entrenched by will
And yet a flower I am not; I yearn.
To feel her paws soft, tending gardens mine
Alas I wait, forlorn, forever pine.