Honing the Craft

Week 49 Sweetbriar

Sweetbriar

A rose blossoms
with velvet touch,
its source, Eurasian bred.
Delicate bloom
in single-ply,
Sweetbriar pink and red.

Fragrant buds'
full tilt display-
too wild to tame in bed.
Mixed in bristles,
their prickly stem
a harvest lightly tread.
                    ~~Judi Van Gorder

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12 Lines

Entered Week May 10 prompt "rose"

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Inspired by "Week 49 Form: Sweetbriar"  

Verse Form: The Sweetbriar   is an invented verse form similar to the Minuette. It uses only 1 rhyme and was created by Viola Berg. The elements of the Sweetbriar are:
         1. a poem in 12 lines made up of 2 sixains. (This could easily be considered a stanzaic form, to be written in any number of sixains but it might be difficult to maintain the singular rhyme in more than 2 stanzas.)
         2. syllabic, 4-4-6-4-4-6 syllables per line.
         3. rhymed, rhyme scheme xxaxxa xxaxxa. x being unrhymed