Fading Rose

Week 5: Trois-Par-Huit. a fading rose retains glimpses of past glory.

Trois-Par-Huit: 3-3-2 line arrangement in 3 stanzas; Rhyme AABBBCCC, syllable count 3-6-9-12-12-9-6-3.

Fading Rose


Beauty’s pledge
Hidden in humble hedge
Prickly thorns guard coy petals tight furled.

Soon opens her velvet heart to admiring world
Frilly petticoats of confident splendour swirled
Now full-blown, bees hover thickly close

Aging, past glory shows
Fading rose.