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Open Poetry #49

Never Blooming Rose

Michael

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-08-13

Posts 7666
California

0 posted 2015-12-27 02:42 AM

Never Blooming Rose

Forth from shadow, a warmth in snow
On ageless poet tread;
Dream lost to time, curse put to rhyme
Every day in his head.
Her sweetness lost ever his cost,
He's walked here ever since.
A hollow moan cloaked 'forrest's groan,
Ever her fallen prince.

She wails by night, the grim delight
Of powers none should preach.
Locked in her tower, hour by hour,
Ever out of his reach.
She once sang by, with softest sigh,
The window as he passed.
Now silence cries for all that dies
Tallied to sins amassed.

A younger day they made their way
Along this very path.
A dream too pure for youth's endure,
Too soon their aftermath.
A perfect rose, 'gainst the cold snows,
The last of gifts they shared.
Ne'er gain to bloom 'pon fields of gloom,
Hearts anything but spared.

Of all loved most, now but a ghost
That whispers in his mind;
He wanders here through pain and fear,
Knowing what he won't find.
Still search he must; snow, sand, or dust
With hand never to close
Over stem of forfeited gem,
Their never rebloomed rose.

Michael Anderson

12/10/2015

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

1 posted 2015-12-27 06:05 AM

Your masterfully written poem plunges me into a profound melancholy, dear Michael. So many hearts still are wounded and they still tread the same path of yesterday to feel again the sweet fragrance of what was and to revive the pain of loss. No one does it better than you.

I think so many will relate.

I believe there are new roses who are wasted, not allowed to bloom, because we do not cultivate free space within our hearts. Hearts have a wonderful quality, they can expand infinitely ...

Love and peace.

Margherita

"Love is the One who masters all things;
I am mastered totally by Love."
(Rumi)

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

2 posted 2015-12-30 11:02 PM

nice writing...james

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