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Just A Woman
Senior Member

since 2001-03-10

Posts 507

0 posted 2001-03-21 07:21 PM

I ponder love and it's
Mystery
The invisible force that I
ache for in the darkness
and fear in the light
~
Knowing how to give
but not how to recieve
or perhaps,
give completely to
~
Perhaps too many painful memories
I have no wish to repeat
~
This rose minds not
if you touch her tender petals
breathe in her scent
or even notice in her small way
that she's beautiful
~
Just please do not pick her
or uproot her to transplant
She knows not how to live
but here

"When people show you who they are, believe them"

~Maya Angelou~

Sven

Member Laureate

since 1999-11-23

Posts 14937
East Lansing, MI USA

1 posted 2001-03-21 07:24 PM

I've heard that roses only grow best where they've bloomed. . . and grown. . .

According to this. . . that would appear to be true. . . wonderful writing. . .

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To the world, you may only be one person. But to one person, you may be the world.

Just A Woman
Senior Member

since 2001-03-10

Posts 507

2 posted 2001-03-21 07:29 PM

Thank you Sven! Actually I think you may be right. I have terrible luck with roses. But for one rose bush that used to actually be a tree that seems to even survive living with me. (ha ha)

"When people show you who they are, believe them"

~Maya Angelou~

Lone Wolf
Member Ascendant

since 2000-03-16

Posts 5842
Lansing, MI USA

3 posted 2001-03-21 07:35 PM

I love this!! The rose is indeed a special and delicate flower to be treaured always. Wonderful writing.

LW

Poetry should surprise by fine excess...it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts and appear almost a remembrance. -J.Keats

Honeybee
Member Ascendant

since 1999-12-26

Posts 5372
Ontario, CANADA

4 posted 2001-03-21 08:43 PM

Wonderfully penned, excellent message~

Take care,
Melissa~

HM3
Member

since 1999-07-15

Posts 169
TX

5 posted 2001-03-21 10:09 PM

Nicely said and I am reminded of the devine Ms M and I share the dark and the light and the love of The Rose.

Work like money doesn't matter, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching...

Irish Rose
Member Patricius

since 2000-04-06

Posts 10263

6 posted 2001-03-21 10:33 PM

stunning.....

Kathleen Blake

"When red-haired girls scamper like roses over the rain-green grass,
and the sun drips honey."
Laurie Lee

RMW
Senior Member

since 2001-03-21

Posts 1424

7 posted 2001-03-22 10:24 AM

"She knows not how to live....but here." My, excellent.

Bob

Wilfred Yeats
Member Elite

since 2000-08-04

Posts 2704
Wilmington, Delaware

8 posted 2001-03-22 10:34 AM

"Knowing how to give
but not how to recieve
or perhaps,
give completely to
~
Perhaps too many painful memories
I have no wish to repeat"

Words we've all spoken in our hearts at times - - I agree with others - this could be another great lyric

Just A Woman
Senior Member

since 2001-03-10

Posts 507

9 posted 2001-03-22 11:07 AM

Thank you so much, everyone. I struggled with this one, and I'm sure it could use alot of work. But I so appriciate your comments.

"When people show you who they are, believe them"

~Maya Angelou~

Lady In White

Member Elite

since 2001-02-12

Posts 2799
USA

10 posted 2001-03-22 12:23 PM

This is quite lovely, as is....

JLR
Senior Member

since 2001-02-04

Posts 1785

11 posted 2001-03-22 02:42 PM

I really like the way you write. I like the way you contrast here.

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

12 posted 2001-03-22 04:09 PM

Makes me think of how delicate a rose is and how it needs to be nourished to grow...just the same as love...James

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