This was the winning entry for the ~poetrycafe flower contest! Wee!! Thanks everyone for voting

Please note: this description is quite lengthy.. read the poem first and then come back to this. Trust me, you'll enjoy the poem much more that way..

I wanted to express a love between 2 people that (to use a cliché) blossoms like a flower. I know ‘love’ is so clichéd as it is, especially when using the flower metaphor, but it’s one that evokes such beautiful feelings and imagery. So I set the scene in a ‘secret garden’, which is metaphorical in itself because their love is ‘secret’. The subject in the poem is describing the atmosphere in the garden. I.e. describing the love that she and her lover make together.

Since this poem is about violets, I did some research on Violets - they are commonly found in moist meadows and damp woods, so I used this idea to show that they grow most beautifully in my secret garden.

‘Lust coloured’ is purple, ‘Heart shapes’ are the shapes of the petals (by definition) and ‘purple-veined’ is actually the texture of the petals. I wanted to use veins because it associates blood and neck and vampires LOL and I thought that was romantic.

Form: I’ve used the rhyme scheme ABCB / DEFE / GHGI with 10 syllables per line.

Hope I haven’t spoiled this for you.. Enjoy..