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Premium Member The Rose
This is not a poem about a rose
Nor a poem about diligence and beauty
Today, I sit and stare at the walls
Walls    that...

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Categories: rose, absence, allusion, death, depression,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Premium Member A Winter Rose - a Sonnet
I walk through the glistening virgin snow
That covers the sorrow of autumn’s death 
Where I find on a bush a frozen rose  
Its beauty...

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Categories: rose, winter,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Where the White Rose Blooms
The single white rose captured the old gardener's attention,
He lovingly cared for it, like it was his own grand-daughter,
The roses were just like family and...

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Categories: rose, death, funeral, garden, heaven,
Form: Quatrain
Letter To Rhapsodical Rose

Here, I scribble a letter 
to the rhapsodical rose, 
dipping my quill in 
stardust that slips 
like a violet waterfall 
from the tips of 
white...

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Categories: rose, emotions, fantasy, feelings, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Rose and Her Thorns
A lovely rose grew to the garden's delight,
a poem of sunrise surrounded by night.
One day her friend Ivy asked "Why do you mourn?" 
Rose answered,...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rose, death, death of a
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Violin
She sleeps in her rose wood bed,
                  ...

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Categories: death, love, rose,
Form: Personification
Premium Member I Died
As blaze of August fades into the Fall
horizons new have burned and turned to ash
and textures of the change of seasons clash,
a plague of frost...

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Categories: rose, age, death, destiny, life,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Roses Roses Roses Potd
In all her glory, dawn has burst forth,

With a slight glow of early morning brightness

I sit in the bower, listening to birds in concert

And admire...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: red, rose,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sophie
Sophie Scholl was raised a Christian in a Lutheran family
Born in the town of Forchtenberg in south west Germany
For standing defiant against evil with her...

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Categories: death, girl, inspirational, rose,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Wild Love
The blackberry's love for the garden rose
Brought down the gardener's wrath.
The blackberry sensed the danger
As he wended the garden path.

" A love so true as...

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Categories: garden, love, rose, sweet,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Creeping Roses
Tender tendrils climb the wall
Up towards the sky
Past the latticed windows tall
Clinging on from high.

Then in springtime buds in red
Pout with lips apart
Inhibitions they all...

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Categories: rose,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member breath to breath -
they say to mend an injured heart, move on
      and thus I've done so, time-and-time- again
    ...

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Categories: rose, analogy, lost love, metaphor,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member It Happened On a Misty Morning
Wettened by the mornings dew 
Closely spaced where rows of roses grew 
Footprints stained the cobblestone 
Where my love and I had walked, alone

Sweet light's...

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Categories: rose, beauty, kiss, light, love,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The Flower -Part One-
“A Flowers Wilt”	

Witness the small existence 
that abides the beauty of-----------
Freelancers all around,
Just to get a good look.

A baneful abrasion, the flower took
It captivates you...

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Categories: rose, art, beauty, birth, care,
Form: Free verse
Sonnet 28 'I Think I Know the Name of Purity'
I think I know the Name of Purity,
It is Your Name -- it holds clear water well!
A Chalice carved almost to shattering,
A white rose, that...

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Categories: rose, for her, innocence, integrity,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Shattered Sighs