Shed your thorns, please, rose

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bsquirrel

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0 posted 2002-12-28 08:43 PM

Shed your thorns, please, rose.
I simply want to know.
Petal soft to salty skin.
A fingertip, not unfelt snow.

Shed your thorns and raise your head.
Spread within your fragrance sweet.
Plain as light to claim the sky,
let your beauty freely bleed.

Shed your thorns, please, rose.
Sharpened knives turn grey and fall.
Let them crumble in the sand.
Handle fire to my hand.

Shed your thorns, or that I may
as the wind, pull them away.
Either way, lay humors bare.
Let me need you without wear.

Aenimal
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since 2002-11-18

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1 posted 2002-12-28 08:48 PM

These are just fantastic words Bsquirrel. Thanks

regards2you
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2 posted 2002-12-28 10:21 PM

I like this!
Enjoyed, Pat

..without surrender, be on good terms with all persons..
"Desiderata"

inkedgoddess
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3 posted 2002-12-28 10:23 PM

he sent me a dozen roses, and they died, so i tossed the petals to the wind,

[This message has been edited by inkedgoddess (12-28-2002 10:23 PM).]

garysgirl

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since 2002-09-29

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4 posted 2002-12-28 10:27 PM

Michael, I enjoyed reading this. Thanks....

Sunkissed
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since 2002-12-03

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5 posted 2002-12-28 10:50 PM

This is so pretty it brought tears to my eyes.

Nice one, Mikester

Sunkissed.

serenity blaze
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6 posted 2002-12-28 11:49 PM

oh would that I
had not known need
of thorns on stem protecting me--
if I were brave, then I would sheathe
these lances, mine surrounding me,
or is it foolish to believe
without them I could still grow free?
Would I then be plucked from vine
to grace a vase for some short day?
I can't undo what is not mine.
I was simply born this way.

Let me die in my own time.
Watch me wither ON the vine.

passing shadows
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7 posted 2002-12-29 02:30 AM

hmmmmm...yeah!

Sandpiper
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8 posted 2002-12-29 06:39 AM

"I simply want to know.
Petal soft to salty skin.
A fingertip, not unfelt snow"

...yes, don't we all--excellent!!

"And it was at that age...Poetry arrived in search of me...And something started in my soul."
Pablo Neruda

GG
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9 posted 2002-12-29 12:50 PM

I really liked this!
A great write

Happy New year to you.
Always, Alyssa

- And so it was that time stood still -
(blink, breathe, stand, fight)

Martie

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10 posted 2002-12-29 01:02 PM

Mike

Excellent!

GOlDsparklESS
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11 posted 2002-12-29 01:04 PM

yes..very tender, very true.

bsquirrel

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since 2000-01-03

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12 posted 2002-12-30 07:36 PM

Thanks for reading, everyone. And inkedgoddess, I love your style.

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