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The Dilemma of Roses

The rose, having no-longer place to go… for even, outside the gardens, the wild well knows that beauty, uncultivated, never grows…. One does not use soil tilled by a scalpel; and bodies of unborn to fertilize… such eyes cannot blossom (though the shape of bulbs) nor ever produce for the nose one fragrance divinely pleasing….

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Date: 8/24/2018 1:20:00 AM
G'day Joe … food for thought for me Joe. I cannot recall a cultivated rose that escaped from a garden; not like so many other plants - thanks Joe - Lindsay
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Date: 7/1/2018 6:03:00 AM
Great metaphoric poetry about an emblem I hold most dear to the heart, "the rose" indeed a fragrance we cannot mass produce. Thank you for sharing, have a blessed day.
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Joe Dimino
Date: 7/1/2018 12:50:00 PM
Very kind of you. Thank you, Pixie; have a beautiful day!
Date: 6/30/2018 8:58:00 AM
No lovelier metaphor Joe, well done...
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Joe Dimino
Date: 6/30/2018 10:31:00 AM
Hi Charlie: thank you my friend. Have a beautiful day!
Date: 6/25/2018 2:24:00 PM
Yes... Love the analogy... I use the rose for many of my poems... Great poem Joe..
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Joe Dimino
Date: 6/26/2018 5:12:00 PM
Hi Si; thank you. The rose is always such a beautiful image to the mind and heart.
Date: 6/25/2018 7:40:00 AM
Joe.. I loved reading your poem over a cup of hot coffee this morning. Your write is interesting and it was a joy to read!
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Joe Dimino
Date: 6/26/2018 5:13:00 PM
Hi Lyric; thank you my friend. Have a beautiful day!
Date: 6/24/2018 2:40:00 PM
The beauty of the rose..wonderful!
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Joe Dimino
Date: 6/24/2018 2:42:00 PM
Thank you so much, Alycia; have a beautiful day!!

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