Bartered Rose
Bartered rose with ruddy hue
Blossoming bosom your beckoning cue
Carefully, preened buds fawning suitors with thirst doth imbue
With wavy petals you swagger and stew
Your well-worn stem with waxy scents spew
Blanched branches cloaked with frothy dew
Stalk bleached by caressing winds that blight through and through
Constant heat causes your languid leaves for moisture to sue
Every, fragrant secretion sings at each rapturous chorus anew
Over time from your ravished garlands succor withdrew
Baren rose fertile swells no longer in your sterile funnels brew
Copyright © Stephen Parker | Year Posted 2010
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