Rose Sonnet Poems

Quote: "'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all." - Alfred Lord Tennyson 

In love's great quest, amidst the...

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As thorns exist with the rose, or redness subsists with blood
The evil that dwells in hearts has its traits in the physique.
Though humans try to...

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Asceticism and realism were embraced in baptism.
The era of waiting is gone. Emmanuel exists.
The spirit in him fluttered into doves of optimism.
Mercies fell amidst musing...

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Not when my soul stays from me far apart, 
Nor see with eyes, but with what dormant lies, 
I see God in souls struggling to...

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TO NALLUM IN YOUR GLIST


“I don’t understand you.” She, with pandled lips and gaze forlorn,
While I, becrimbled, sought to straff my meaning, bonsting ever stronger....

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Now, quite suddenly Spring is sprung on us 
with sunny fields of colorful flowers;
without the wicked wind, without the fuss
of princesses in their golden towers,

for...

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What The Roses Don’t Say
by Michael R. Burch

Oblivious to love, the roses bloom
and never touch ... They gather calm and still
to watch the busy insects...

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Rice paper dreams, lanterns and beamers of peace  
lighting the way to my heart you are in far remote  
Intricate cutout beauty, please...

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Ancient tomb where a lady does repose
Guarded always by her most faithful friends
Sarcophagus carved with eternal rose
Always safe forever they will defend.

This tomb completely lost...

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"Let yourself become living poetry." Rumi

Soft whispers of those early summer's breeze
Touches my wrinkled skin, caresses so fine.
This fleeting moment in time's tranquil ease
In your...

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Just when the summer sun had fully set,
   Sending shadows of twilight far and wide—
   It seemed about as calm as...

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Burning in black flames of eternal woes,
my heart yearns to find answers it's needing.
Skin begins to wilt like a winter rose,
bruised from deep wounds of...

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The Mary Rose, Andrea Doria, Estonia,
MV Doña Paz, RMS Titanic, and the Endurance
Wasn't, in techno craftsmanship, each a utopia?
Wasn't, yet, the cause of their wreck...

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it’s not desire per say but the clinging ~

that stifles soul and stops heart from singing 

enlivening silence sets our soul free ~

vibrant in the...

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The paraphernalia of our marriage could unite
Our bodies for only a few days, and our minds—never
Beyond the night of our room, your eyes blinked at...

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