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Song of The Corpse Flower, No 10: ABAB

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Poetic Form: Crown of Sonnets: Italian or Petrachan
Inspired: 2024 January 28
Image: Titan Arum/Corpse Flower by ActiveWild.com
Titan Arum Corpse Flower Amorphophallus titanium
 
Bug-free surroundings are most possible, but not this repulsive, disgusting beast. The so-called, Corpse Flower, how shockable, repulsive, disgusting, and to the least of it said, gives off such a horrid stench, unbearable, odoriferous--mesh vibrant acts that the breed needs to entrench pollinators to the scent of dead flesh. Twill bloom as the largest inflorescence, a total flower stems, stalks, bracts, and bloom. Twill blossom once every seven years. Once pollination impacts, ensure its doom. Tis their way to everlasting, The Corpse Flower blooms heaven in seventh-year warps.

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Date: 1/29/2024 4:29:00 AM
wow, you've beautifully captured what looks like an exquisite flower with a horrible smell. in 7-year cycles...that's deep.
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Date: 1/29/2024 7:25:00 AM
It’s the way it was meant to be, its methods may be repellent but it serves a purpose, thanks, Sara. Aloha, William

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