Rose Farewell Poems

"Kalapana fishing village laid west of Mount Pu'u O'o. Our home was behind the church that sat on an abutment tip that rose slightly higher....

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Good Friday be with you all
A once in a year Friday
Christ has been crucified 
Every year for two thousand years
He doesn’t complain at all
Today is...

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It Was Spring When I Met You. 

I met you in the spring,
When blue birds gather and sing,
With butterflies' wings fluttering,
Stirring above flower petals.

Our whole...

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To my life that betrayed the butterflies~
          within my chrysalis mind, 
forgive my flawed dialect, 
I...

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The Last Unicorn 

I was with the last Unicorn
As she drew her last breath
Her horn expelled magic
As she succumbed to her death

The fairies and Gnomes
Each...

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Forgotten Beauty

Scarlet Beauty in her deathbed
Beauteous than the dewy rose
Beauteous than the dale of hermit
Beauteous than the Oceans pose
Beauteous than the eves and mornings
Which in...

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If I Were Your Love

Val,

Long ago we were in our twenties

We were a beautiful couple

Our life was gifted

And your father wrapped a house

Upon our marriage

And...

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The path of a doe crossed that of a fawn
    who nuzzled up to her ere break of dawn

  They lay...

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I drank an overdose of ale
The bubbly liquid left me intoxicated
It took me away on a wave of fantasy
I levitated and flew to the galaxies
All...

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*Image of Cardinal & Rose by WatsonWR.

The Friendly Strangers

The Cardinal dodged its harpy,
And hides amongst a Rose,
The Cardinal notes its sturdy,
The Rose's regal pose.

The Rose's...

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I looked out my window and what did I see,               ...

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Born two centuries yesteryear
A young pair who passed through Ellis
Built a frame home with rose trellis
Intertwined blooms like them bound dear.
Last roses on their headstones...

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              There was no farewell,
       ...

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Blinking back tears
Sliding down cheeks, years
Like the dew slides down the petal
of a tender, blush pink rose – it will settle
on the earth beneath
where goodbyes...

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We commemorate the death of our love ones
We don't celebrate the death of our love ones
Today is not a great day
Today is a very sad...

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