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[This poem was written in the mid-1960s and first appeared in my chapbook, "The Lady in the Pink Hat," Candor Press, 1969.]

the last rose battered and beaten Bowed for final bequest weary, and rejected, I whisper a final request for one who suffers failure like me--the struggle for life. When utter end is strife the bud grows fat and tight on the vine And the future that waits to blossom is mine.

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Anselmo Boles

Date: 5/10/2021 10:41:00 PM

Hopefulness is the set of eyes that will find the shore you can land on. Thumbs up Milton! anselmo

L Milton Hankins
Date: 5/11/2021 7:56:00 AM

Thanks, Anselmo, for your positive encouragement.

Sotto Poet

Date: 5/10/2021 2:32:00 PM

Great poem; even the circumstances are different, but those gems are always there waiting for some dust to be released so that they can brighten again. Thanks for sharing, Milton

L Milton Hankins
Date: 5/10/2021 2:49:00 PM

So true, Lasaad. Thanks for your thoughts.