DC Scrabblegram (David / Dave)

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A kindhearted wordplay enthusiast who used to make Scrabblegrams. 🦉 www.davesscrabblegrams.com Book ⬇️ https://penteractpress.com/store/scrabblegrams-david-cohen

Reflective Rose - inspired by The Little Prince

I'm a rose, yes, or am I?

Rosy-awed, I smiled at, I craftily admired lost lovers.
Sent I was, a pure veneer,
Felt sacred – now red, now redder still...

A flare! Tall autumn robe regalia.
Fireworks! I rail, I toss, I tier.
It is all a field arcadian, a dopamine dragon’s eye.

Cindery burn-ups – warming is Eden.
If a fox I made with gilded light,
I wed a mix of a fine design.

I’m raw-spun, ruby-red nice. Yes?
No garden – I’m a pod, an aid, a cradle.
I fall as I tire. It is so.

‘Til I, a risk-rower, I fail – age reborn.
Mutual lateral fall, it's redder,
"Wonder! Wonder! Castle-free!"

Never up as a witness revolts.
Older, I'm daylit.
Far citadel, I'm sideways…

Or I'm a rose. Yes, or am I?

Image credit: original by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, this image from https://www.clipartmax.com/middle/m2i8N4G6d3Z5m2H7_little-prince-and-rose-wall-sticker-le-petit-prince-little-prince-rose/

I begin
as larva.

I grow,
a juvenile sequestered
in a cozy cocoon dorm.

I wake up
and exit,
metamorphosed,
a butterfly
in flight.

Blanks: C, M

Image credit:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Blue_morpho_butterfly.jpg