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mirror man
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since 2001-01-08

Posts 814

0 posted 2001-03-27 12:25 PM

rose of pain and sorrow

How I want to feel your touch,
rose of the empty plain,
to know again the image of your flower,
to look again into the florets of your life.

Sweet rose, hold again your blades
against my skin.
Sweet thorns, dance again along the shades
of my grief.
Sweet fruit of pain and misery,
iridescent beauty of tears and light.

How I long to feel again
your cool petals in the blazing sun,
to gaze again into your whorl
of fascination grown from the barren desert,
to breathe again your sweet bouquet
against the bitter wind,
to taste again the nectar of your sight,
to know your life from death
again and again and again
today, tomorrow, and tomorrow.

Hold me, touch me,
help me live again,
Sweet rose, flower of grief, life,
death, pain and sorrow.

copyright 2001

[This message has been edited by mirror man (edited 03-27-2001).]

Katherine Chandler
Member

since 2001-03-07

Posts 280
Florida, USA

1 posted 2001-03-27 01:53 PM

A beautiful wish for life. I liked the comparison of the rose to grief, life, death, pain and sorrow. Most only see the rose as love. This one touched me as I read some of my own history throughout.

Smiles to you mirror man

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
T S Eliot

dragonpoe
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since 2000-11-12

Posts 608
Palm Bay, Florida

2 posted 2001-03-27 03:24 PM

great read. I, too liked how you brought out the other, darker side of such a beautiful flower. The rose is powerful in many symbolic ways and you captured this one nicely.

With the word, I am mighty, with the pen I am free..
dragonpoe

Isis
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since 1999-09-06

Posts 6296
Sunny Queensland

3 posted 2001-03-27 07:09 PM

I agree with Dragonpoe here hon, you did a great job visually and symbolically!!

Isis

*War produces one thing - Cemetaries. And in cemetaries there are no enemies!*
~Isis~~Sovereign of the Spirit.

coyote
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since 2001-03-17

Posts 1077

4 posted 2001-03-27 07:44 PM

The rose,
Like the cactus flower,
protects herself with thorns.
We however,
impale ourselves,
on their beauty.

Very good, man.
I loved it.

"The poet is the priest of the invisible."
Wallace Stevens

taramw
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since 2000-06-08

Posts 738

5 posted 2001-03-28 08:09 AM

Enjoyed the read

~ Tara ~

may you live all the days of your life. -- jonathan swift

mirror man
Senior Member

since 2001-01-08

Posts 814

6 posted 2001-03-29 01:05 PM

Thank you all very much. Everyone is so well read here. I take this as a compliment.

Irish Rose
Member Patricius

since 2000-04-06

Posts 10263

7 posted 2001-03-29 08:22 PM

How did I miss this beautiful poem

Kathleen Blake

"When red-haired girls scamper like roses over the rain-green grass,
and the sun drips honey."
Laurie Lee

[This message has been edited by Irish Rose (edited 03-29-2001).]

Xeonox

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since 2000-04-01

Posts 1764
CA, USA

8 posted 2001-03-29 11:59 PM

Very beautiful poetry.

Ronil (Inspiration for my poems is all around me for my muse is my reality.)

Kethry
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-07-29

Posts 9082
Victoria Australia

9 posted 2001-03-30 05:19 PM

with every rose there comes a thorn
and every night rasies new dawn.
Loved your poem and the images it presented.
write on
Kethry

Those of us who refuse to risk and grow get swallowed up by life. Patty Hansen.

Fading Away

Member Elite

since 2001-03-14

Posts 3131
Lynchburg, Virginia

10 posted 2001-03-31 04:28 PM

Beautiful piece.. enjoyed the read.

--Marie

It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives.

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