Best Gentler Poems

To pick the rose
that shimmers brightest
at first sight,
be prepared;
for that is the fastest fleeting
of them all.

Let it go when needed,
even after it grows attached
so that its deadness
does not spread to you
and become your own....

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Shielded by dark clouds
  from suspicious sun's glare
She slipped out the door
  Took him up on his dare

To find a gentler path
  a rose amidst thorns
To turn her life around
  To wake up every morn

To the voice of birds singing
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