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Open Poetry #46

Optimism vs. Cynicism

Honeybee
Member Ascendant

since 1999-12-26

Posts 5372
Ontario, CANADA

0 posted 2010-05-03 08:09 PM

Optimism vs. Cynicism

Eager fools, we pick the rose
careless hands tight
hoping we won't bleed
as thorns sink skin pierced.

The choice lies in the wield
that wraps the bandage
and smells the blush vine with eyes closed,
nourishing this fragile beauty
to grow life in the garden again;
To one who, with open eyes
squeezes the wound red
to drip the pluck of petals
painfully one by one
shallow on their grave.

By Melissa Long-Monette

BluesSerenade
Member Patricius

since 2001-10-23

Posts 10549
By the Seaside

1 posted 2010-05-03 09:11 PM

The ying and the yang of it all, is often painful in it's beauty.

Nice~

Honeybee
Member Ascendant

since 1999-12-26

Posts 5372
Ontario, CANADA

2 posted 2010-05-03 09:55 PM

Thank you BluesSerenade!

srizah
Junior Member

since 2010-05-03

Posts 34
India

3 posted 2010-05-04 02:42 AM

You have used the rose+thorn metaphor very well

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