theme: always feeling the need to give something up for others growth/ benefit) The story is about a plant character created to sacrifice herself for others, expressing the authors feelings about how she always feels the need to help others, she wants to tell others to put yourself first sometimes to allow yourself to grow hence the fact the story is about plants
Once upon a time, (Acrostic name, hoping to express an author’s life through its characters)
Nasturtium the vibrant melody (flower chosen to fit the beginning of the next line and using its description to make it into a character: vibrant melody- in other words colorful, beautiful, and sings
Created to lend defence sublime (it helps veggies grow by attracting pests with its beauty and sacrifices allowing the others to thrive)
Eternally grateful garnish, through fidelity (very appreciated through its sacrifice and loyalty
Ugly assassins reave her of youth (the pests kill her)
Perrish’s along with the pencil (pen being the one who wrote her story)
One who’s of the same vein truth (shifts the characters problem to the author who writes her story, they are the same “vein” because they are the same)
No one espy’s the pure mind then-still, (simple human being that is not noticed unlike the character)
All dry from plants that thirst for ease (others thirst for help, leaching off of her)
Time replenishes the pencils soil (after a while they don’t need her and it allows her soil her roots which she survives off of)
Its alone but freed from droughts seize (free from hard times)
Mighty pencil creates again, drinking wisdom toil (Learns from hard times to move on, create)
Eventually unshackled from assassins and amiable peas (Freed from the peas aka plants aka friends that need her help from the assassins but like said in the previous lines they don’t need her help much anymore.)
(everything in parentheses are my notes and may help the reader understand the poem. Kingston, you can decide where to put these notes if you think we should keep them.)