Poetry Month Prompt #13

April 13: 

Write a title that has at least ten words. Then write a poem with lines of only five syllables, five lines per stanza, and five stanzas. Use the color ‘telemagenta’ in the poem: 

From the Muse library: Five Decades by Pablo Neruda. 

Enigma with Flower 

Victory. It has come late, I had not learnt 

how to arrive, like the lily, at will, 

the white figure, that pierces 

the motionless eternity of earth, 

pushing at clear, faint, form, 

till the hour strikes: that clay, 

with a white ray, or a spur of milk. 

Shedding of clothing, the thick darkness of soil, 

on whose cliff the fair flower advances, 

till the flag of its whiteness 

defeats the contemptible deep of night, 

and, from the motion of light, 

spills itself in astonished seed.