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Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

0 posted 2004-03-21 05:23 AM

Can I decry the wayward steps of a core belief
or how a person stumbles when foundations rock
and crush the last remains of an idealistic dream
perceived as being attached to this reality?

No, I can’t, for too I see how fragile is a rose
how it wilts and withers when deprived of the rain,
and then must fall to ground, used, abused, and disowned,
no longer in the memory of lovers, husbands, wives.

But a single rose can testify to an inner strength
when on the edge teetering in a howling gale
or prematurely cut from its only source of life
and placed as adornment in an airless home.

The rose of soul – how great thou art to not ever fade
or suffer pain of death from the last exhale of air
bound and tied immortally to the essence of true love
sent into the atmosphere as a lesson for mankind.

Don’t cut a rose haphazardly for thorns lie there beside
or infiltrate a dream without honourable intent
for strength to overcome and perceive the truth of one
will one day rise up like steam bubbles from the earth.

In that steam there will be the hurt of past misdeeds
and the pain of waking up from a beautiful dream
and the knowledge thereof will peel your flesh away
and leave exposed to the heat the properties of mind.

Burnt, singed, and peeled, is that how we must be
before we can ask to sup with the free?

Helen

Midnitesun

Member Empyrean

since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

1 posted 2004-03-21 12:26 PM

quote:
But a single rose can testify to an inner strength
when on the edge teetering in a howling gale
or prematurely cut from its only source of life
and placed as adornment in an airless home.

keep that inner strength alive, nourish it well in the face of adversity and NO gales will take you down, my friend

DavePage
Member Elite

since 2003-12-21

Posts 2917

2 posted 2004-03-21 12:37 PM

I'm sorry to say this but my roses of the heart must have taken commando courses

They takes winds of 30 mile gusts, and all I do is feed them a mixture of bone, blood and slow dispensed minerals and leave the rose in peace to find it's own way

Dave

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

3 posted 2004-03-21 02:54 PM

Thanks, Midnitesun. I aim to nourish inner strength - not today though.

Well, Dave, I'm a-thinking dispensed minerals with a little additive might help. These days, however, that would just put me to sleep but that's not such a bad thing really because I don't have bad dreams. Not yet at any rate.

Grover
Senior Member

since 2004-01-27

Posts 1967
London, ON, Canada

4 posted 2004-03-21 06:42 PM

This is a very well-written poem. Loads of great images!

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

5 posted 2004-03-21 06:51 PM

a bit melancholic....sweet write though a little sad too

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