My Poem: A Bravery of Geraniums

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Title: A Bravery of Geraniums
Number of Lines: 8
Rating: Gen
Poetic form: triolet
Prompt: mistrusting
Notes: I just read this line from Castle Skull by John Dickson Carr: There are many echoes in Coblenz by night, for you must not be deceived by a bravery of geraniums and villas into forgetting the old decaying gables crowding up behind. Bells have rung, and men have died, since Cæsar here threw his bridge across the Rhine. But now it was bright daylight—though dusky in the tunnel—and I distinctly heard somebody walking just behind me.

you mustn’t be deceived by a
bravery of geraniums
the mistrusting and the shy say
you mustn’t be deceived by a
bed, they dissemble, they lie, they
have too much in their craniums
you mustn’t be deceived by a
bravery of geraniums

Comments

[smallhobbit]

I can promise you I will try not to be so deceived ;)

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Ha! I did think of your icon. I am not certain exactly what the original phrase in context means but I liked it. Carr has a nice turn of phrase sometimes. I shall do some short verse with these.

[debriswoman]

This is just right:-)

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Aw, thanks. I'm not even 100% certain I understood the original line in the book, but 'a bravery of geraniums' is such a great phrase, I thought it deserved a form with a refrain. I am glad you liked it.