Tulips

In days of spring the rondeau rhymes.
The colored flowers glow betimes.
With red and yellow, orange glow
my eyes full dance by joys to know
these fields call their enraptured climbs.

As honey shows the tongue bliss times
the tasty hues with music chimes
Explosive scents in brightest show
In days of spring the rondeau rhymes.

The bee in cup, new life it primes
as pollen weighs in flight thus climbs
the carpenter of field, I trow
a-sparking Cupid's truest bow
the tulips blaze and soft as limes
In days of spring the rondeau rhymes.

This poem has created the 15 lines of rondeau form with the aabba aabR aabbaR rhyme scheme.

by Jay O'Toole
on May 27th, 2017