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Sunshine

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Listening to every heart

0 posted 2008-02-14 07:00 PM

Looking for the Wild Rose

Who knows where the wild rose grows
In rocky crag, or mountainous slag
Beside the brook, oh, where should one look?
For where would the wild rose grow?

The gypsy, she had said to me
“Find where the wild rose grows ~
Follow, you see, yon honeybee
And search for your wild red rose.”

Honeybee and I searched deep valleys
Beyond fields so green, we waded streams
Following a trance, honeybee and I
All for the wild rose dream.

We looked so far and wide, you see
To find where such a wild rose might grow,
But elusive it is, it resides, who knows?
Where, indeed, does the wild rose glow?

The gypsy said I would find my love
That he and I would never part
Wherever in secret the wild rose grows
Perhaps it blooms only in my lonesome heart.

But should you find where the wild rose grows
Will you cleverly send me a sign?
For I would love the Love that stands
Wherever, for that wild rose may still be mine.

©KRJ
3-15-01
revised
3-10-05

Karilea - if I whisper, will you listen? Keeping in mind, I must stand close...and keep my promises...

Kristabell
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since 2003-11-29

Posts 678
Portland, OR

1 posted 2008-02-14 07:06 PM

The wild rose is within you. It's eunique, and that is why it is so hard to find, difficult to capture.

Beautiful muse.

K

TomMark
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since 2007-07-27

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LA,CA

2 posted 2008-02-14 07:15 PM

Beautiful, my dear lady!!! Everyone is looking for the uncontaminated, pure natural love from inside and outside.
Beautiful!!!

Robert E. Jordan
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since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

3 posted 2008-02-14 07:21 PM

Sunshine,

Wild roses can be found all over, sometimes in the strangest and most surprising places. You'll recognize them when you meet them.

Bobby

Robert Frazier
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since 2003-02-06

Posts 1014

4 posted 2008-02-14 10:59 PM

it grows in a familiar place, beautiful Karilea

H, Robert

Roniece Dawson-Bruce
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since 2000-01-29

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Sydney, Australia

5 posted 2008-02-15 11:55 PM

Karilea... you write of beauty so well ...

love RDB

Be kind at heart....for everyone you meet has their own battle to fight.........

Margherita
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since 2003-02-08

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Eternity

6 posted 2008-02-16 09:11 AM

I love to stand under this shower of romantic words, dear Karilea.

Truly beautiful!

love
Margherita

nakdthoughts
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Between the Lines

7 posted 2008-02-16 12:30 PM

I use to have wild rose bushes on my property that were here many years before I came. Wish I still had them.

M

Honeybunch
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since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
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8 posted 2008-02-16 12:56 PM

Karilea, I think you do know that the wild rose grows within but how well you have penned this to make others know. Lovely!

Helen

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Realms of Light

9 posted 2008-02-16 01:30 PM

Sheer poetry! Just like the romantic poets wrote in days of yore! A present day classic! ~ and as lovely as a wild rose.

Love & Sun Light,

Linda

Toerag
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since 1999-07-29

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Ala bam a

10 posted 2008-02-16 01:44 PM

Roses thrive on Sunshine!!!!

secondhanddreampoet
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since 2006-11-07

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a 'Universalist' !

11 posted 2008-02-17 09:06 AM

a most grand-fine 'penning!'

I am especially fond of:

"The gypsy said I would find my love
That he and I would never part
Wherever in secret the wild rose grows
Perhaps it blooms only in my lonesome heart."

serious, sustained applause!!

Artic Wind
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since 2007-09-16

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Realm of Supernatural

12 posted 2008-02-17 09:09 AM

Beautifully Written SUNSHINE!

ARCTIC WIND

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

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displaced

13 posted 2008-02-17 10:12 AM

not so much on the surface but deep inside I am still a romantic

and I truly appreciated this one

lovely beauty here

Midnitesun

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since 2001-05-18

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Gaia

14 posted 2008-02-17 08:23 PM

What a gorgeous write, lady Sunshine! Thank you for sweetly scenting midnite's evening!

JamesMichael
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since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

15 posted 2008-02-18 05:29 AM

Nice...James

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