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Winter Flower

The beauty of a flower is born in the winter. It is there in that suffering Amidst the bones of bareness And the cold of snow Stark and stretched White as a perpetual desert It is there Where the flower finds its seed Where red is drawn as deep as lava And the scent as sweet as cidered apple. It is there Not dug from the frozen root Of Earth But bloomed from the blood Of the our imagination Beyond from where the bleak hovers And sorrow Sinks It is there Where the soul flinches and leaps To the distant Faint But familiar light of being re-born.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2018




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Date: 2/6/2021 7:23:00 PM
Glad to find this lovely poem published in the 2020 PS Anthology ~
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Date: 10/6/2018 5:27:00 AM
Nice work, Robert. It's been said that our trials are the fertilizer of our success. There is much practical truth in this poem. Thanks for sharing. Blessings.
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Robert Trezise Jr.
Date: 10/7/2018 9:44:00 AM
Thank you Curtis. You are most kind. Bob
Date: 2/28/2018 9:51:00 PM
This is pure and beautiful. Classic in it's unfurling of the real story. Another favourite.
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Date: 2/26/2018 7:22:00 AM
"Where red is drawn as deep as lava." What a word picture. Thank you.
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Date: 2/26/2018 7:01:00 AM
Marvelous! I love the language and concept. Very well done.
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