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That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart and made it a hundred times more beautiful. ~ Rumi A sense of apprehension stills my hand As I reach out to pluck the lovely rose Weakening my hunger for its splendor Resting upon some spot in my home Where I can delight in it whenever I want Mysterious melancholy weaves through me Stilling my yearning and forcing me to see The beckoning of a new pod surfacing there Where a faded rose shares its depressed petals Caressing the heavenly masterpiece of vision Miracles collide with grace and create serenity From the master’s hand, sweetest sensations Of inspiration dancing across the heart and soul Arousing joys that cure all doubt when I chance The burst of gladness felt as I finally notice the rose Music softens my calloused feelings with reminders Of the many times I’ve felt His hand upon my spirit Harvesting the gentleness, inspiration and kindness That lives there, producing sensations of pleasure Alive where I’ve fed and watered the precious beliefs Whispers of silence breath through my lively intimacies Embracing me with sensitivity and sighs of encouragement Revealing in me the need to heal from my past pains The grief that hopes to cut through my current painting Of exhilaration with its knife of disillusionment and disdain The rose finally rests there on the stem instead of my table Revealing the wisdom of knowing that it will forever be alive In the thoughts where it displays itself with grace and hope Reminding me of the dewdrops, the tender petals, the gentle Experience of not grasping its beauty while it was most ecstatic Although I often grasped the thorns in my everyday living This once I refused to give my desires their utmost attention And decided to leave the beauty where it could last longest Allowing life to go on where it was bound to encourage someone With its rich and vivid caress upon the soul who knows its muse
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