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Written for the Flin Flon Writers Guild
        FLORILEGIUM
What! you say, or should it be who!
Now carefully let me explain to you,
No, it has nothing to do with flowers,
Or pleasant summer rainy showers.

But a special kind of expression,
Or florilegia, the plural of florilegium,
Meaning, my friends, believe or not,
Oops, wait a minute I’ve just forgot!

Now I have it, a choice anthology
Of some of the world’s best poetry,
A mix of Latin and Greek you see,
Bound as one for your posterity.

A flowery bunch of good literature
Gathered together, long to endure
In the folds of a great book so fair,
Every sweet verse contained in there,

In Chaucer’s time florilegia were known,
More ideas by Shakespear were also sewn,
I wonder if I try my own florilegium make,
I have poems and stories for goodness sake.

Ann’s Florilegium of prose and sweet poetry
Would make a fine title for all of us to see,
But can I in all honesty compare to poets great
My words I write, my readers may not hesitate.

But I do not think this glory I could ever claim
A florilegium grand under my little known name,
But the desire is there, all I really need is the fee
To publish a large grand looking anthology.

(Millicent) Ann Margetson December 29, 2003