Summer Wrap-Up Read-a-Thon Flower Challenge. 08.11.2012

Summer Wrap-Up Read-a-Thon Flower Challenge!

08.11.2012

By Zara D. Garcia-Alvarez / @ZaraAlexis

This challenge hosted by Unforgettable Books is to use a name of a flower as a stem to create an acrostic poem that describes why I like reading, blogging, or any other hobby of my choice.

For this challenge, I’m going to use one of my favourite flowers:

The Sampaguita flower (also known as the Philippine Jasmine) is my favourite. It’s not only the Philippines’ national flower, its scent is exquisite.

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Shyness and solitude led me to quiet corners, a tree—the printed word.

A book in its binding held secrets I could decipher and imagine though

My eyeglass frames were too large for my face.

Pixie dust and punctuation were things I played with

As a child far long into my age.

Goethe’s Werther wasn’t the only one who wept.

Ulysses, Umberto Eco, and unicorns…

I asked of nothing more than the poet’s cadence—

The author’s reclusive pen.

And words delicate as the sampaguita, potent enough to come undone.

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For more posts on the Summer Wrap-Up Read-a-Thon, you can visit here.

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What’s your favourite flower?

What are your favourite hobbies?

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Zara Alexis

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