Just an Ordinary Garden – A Tercetonine

If I were a garden junky
My garden would look quite funky
With flowers galore I could sell in a store

Even so, in my garden many a flower grows
All year round because it never snows
Right now snowdrops gracefully bow

The lawn is nice and clean
A carpet of emerald green
Dandelion in slumber waiting for summer

To burst into stars of gold
Shining bright and bold
Not as a weed, but a welcome seed

My neighbour’s cats are welcome too
And the lizard whose tongue is blue
But a snake’s sight would give me a fright

As for caterpillars and slimy slugs
I don’t like those voracious garden thugs
At least they’re not the worst kind of beast

I don’t care much for the funnel-web either
The deadly, fuzzy, black spider
Well, such is life – there’s no garden with no strife.

10 August 2013, Sydney, Australia.

© irina dimitric 2013

P.S., Re: Tercetonine. I created this form for Mindful Poetry Contest 2012 out of sheer frustration because I couldn’t master Dante’s terza rima.

Each stanza has 3 lines (tercet).
The first two lines rhyme.
The third line contains internal rhyme.

With Susan Budig’s help this form was named Tercetonine and featured as a challenge in Mindful Poetry Contest 2013.

Tercetonine comes from tercet, which is what each stanza is. And leonine, Internal rhyme: rhymes between a word within a line, often from a medial position (termed also leonine) and one at the end of the line. (Susan Budig)

Mindful Poetry hppt://www.susanbudigs-poetry.blogspot.com

© irina dimitric 2013

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