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Poetry: The Virtues of the Violet: Gen
Rating: Gen
Length: 90
Poetic Form: Quatern
Author's Note: The Language of Flowers gives faithfulness as the meaning of blue violets, watchfulness for the dame violet, and rustic happiness for the yellow violet. The stanzas refer to the Violets in BRUC, SOLI, COPP, and ILLU, respectively. For the monthly prompt.
The virtue of the violet is
faithfulness. Words spoken with
pride, in defense of honor true,
when love is silent, buried, slain.
Sweet like birdsong, spring morn’s dew,
the virtue of the violet is
the joy of rustic happiness,
pedaling down the country lane.
A catching eye, a straining ear,
a care-placed step in noon-day dark,
the virtue of the violet is
watchfulness, vigilance well-masked.
Faith in treachery, joy in ease,
blindness to danger, these burdens
rest on she who will not know what
the virtue of the violet is.