Lyric Rose Poems

"Wild and windblown, that's how you've grown.
Who can cling to a ramblin' rose?"       Lyric written by Nat King Cole

Moving...

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It's nothing strange or new,
even butterflies kiss a lonely rose...
the tender way I kiss you
and tickle your gorgeous nose!

Smiles draw those stars to us,
moonlight is...

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Rose Meadow

Into a lovely enchantment I wander
Soft stardust sprinkles a meadow of night blooming roses
In perfumed hues of scarlet-rose and lavender-gold
Stretching out my cramped and...

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Billy Rose 'ME & MY SHADOW'


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Like the last rose of summer, you carried me away 
Like the last rose of summer on the road to yesterday 
Awake and smell the...

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Written April 14, 2017


It's easy to fall in love
Even easier to break apart
I've been trying for six long years
To mend this broken heart

You used to...

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Under the crystal tree, an empty corpse did lie.
A loving melted pedal of the rose may sigh,
“You’re the most beautiful creature I’ve seen.
For no flesh...

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O, fair heavenly Rose! How I sigh,
     and sigh all the more! to smell your scent
and fresh bouquet, before I soon...

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You’re my violet rose
You’re the poetry
Mixed with some prose
You’re like me —

We’re so different, yet ok on the eye
So significant, our shine is fly
Your roots...

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To be sung to 'Pete's Dragon - Candle on the Water'

I'll be your rose in the garden
My peace for you will always bloom
I know you're...

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Spinning wheels go round and round

I've read that love
Is like the weather in our lives
And behind the storms
There's a sun that always shines
Who knows where...

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She’s a beautiful flower, the elegant kind.
If you’re tempted to pick her, just keep this in mind;
Though she smiles on the surface, the full picture...

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You called my name, blossomed pink through a screen
Red face, heart race, bewitched I fell sick in bed
A rusting rose emerged from my slivered soul

Before...

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Medieval Poems IV



IN LIBRARIOS
by Thomas Campion
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Booksellers laud authors for novel editions
as pimps praise their whores for exotic positions.



Brut (circa 1100...

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Jesus
Jesus belongs to me;
He's not invisible;
He's set me free;
Forgives me;
Did die once for me

He's all around
He's all around
He's all around me

He's my Father
My heavenly
He's my...

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