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The first unsullied snowdrop

Posted by Mark Heathcote on February 9, 2010 - 20:08
from the ABC set The kismet fate of serendipity

Love; what flower do you most aspire?
Love; what flower should I most admire?
Red peony’s with “lustful conduit desire
Purple” crocuses cupped with fire.

Or the now pink foreign ragged robin,
Breathless; rolling on… that country, common.
I “sprig of green moist” Solomon’s seal,
You a single rose bud so genteel.

Love; what flower should I mostly aspire?
Love: what flowers do you mostly require?
Be it the fox gloves fleshy advancing spire
Or the honey suckles tendrils of wire…

Or be you simply May times forget-me-not
Still better the first unsullied snowdrop.

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Comments

jennifer | February 10, 2010 - 17:39

'peony's' - never use an apostrophe to indicate a plural.

with 'y' ending words, if the letter before the 'y' is a vowel, you simply add an as.

if the letter before 'y' is a consonant, as it is here, you remove the 'y' and add 'ies':

'peonies'

Great imagery, and love the sound of 'unsullied snowdrop' as it rolls off the tongue,

J x