SHIKI trumpet flower

George Steel (GSteel@EasyInternet.net)
Wed, 24 Sep 1997 20:32:03 -0700

White trumpet flowers
of the Gabriel's horn
last but a day;
Already a green burr forms
in the cleft of a branch.

envoy

bee droning
from a wilted bloom
trumpet flower

* * * * *
or the amateur *englyn* version

hopelessly the honey bee drones within
a wilting daylily
somewhere in his smothered plea
echoes all eternity

englyn: a welsh form
consisting of four lines (all rhyming)
10, 6, 7, 7 syllables respectively
1st line rhyming on 6th, 7th or 8th syllable
last syllable of first line
alliterates with 3rd syllable of second line

that and the justifiably magnificent *cynganned* which I
am not even going to attempt to define, save to say that it is
alliteration taken to the ultimate, constitute another country's
contract with nature through poetry.

please try to find a book on it at your library.
it will astound you.

thanks for your patience
george (not Welsh speaking) steel

p.s. can anyone tell me the latin name
of the Gabriel's horn?
I have a dozen gardening books at home
and not one of them lists it.