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Tag: rose

Posted on November 6, 2025November 2, 2025

Late Bloomer

appreciated
all the more
this rose in November

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Posted on April 29, 2025April 27, 2025

The Thorn, The Leaf And Then The Rose

the thorns eternal
and budding leaves
enduring faith in the rose

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Posted on February 21, 2025February 15, 2025

To Brighten The Day

petals like silk
scent of spice
the rose-lipped carnation

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Posted on June 18, 2024June 10, 2024

Respite With Roses

climbing the trellis
the rose
makes its way to heaven

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Posted on April 23, 2024April 18, 2024

Flowering Sunset

the night
unfurls herself
like a rose

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Posted on October 27, 2023October 22, 2023

Two Red Feathers

the wild rose takes flight
her last bloom
red feathers

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Posted on July 26, 2023July 15, 2023

Dawning Rose

she opens
lightening and brightening
expanding into the whole of the day

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Posted on June 30, 2023June 22, 2023

Ways Of Being Chosen

to be picked by the eye
rather than the hand
is to be held in
an admiration of reverence

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Posted on February 27, 2023February 27, 2023

Old Rose

blossoms
gone to hips
still reaching for the sun

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Posted on October 14, 2022October 4, 2022

As One

October rose
basked in the sun
I basked in her beauty

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Posted on October 4, 2022September 28, 2022

Spectacle Of The New Day

morning rose
the sky
in full bloom

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Posted on August 4, 2022August 2, 2022

Rose Interior

rain drops gather
on the inner sanctum
of beauty

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Posted on March 17, 2022March 13, 2022

The Green Rose

like a siren
calling to spring
bringing blossoms into being

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Posted on July 3, 2021June 29, 2021

They Remember Youth

the old rose
and the old barn
share an elegance of aging

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Posted on June 17, 2021June 11, 2021

Worth

the spent rose
her value in beauty
undiminished

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Posted on November 15, 2020November 6, 2020

Cousins

like the cabbage rose
so blooms
the wood rose

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Posted on July 28, 2020July 24, 2020

Blue Only At The Edges

anomaly
of the blue diamond
a new perfection

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Posted on July 16, 2020July 12, 2020

The Past, The Present, The Future


the garden’s rose bouquet
holding and offering the blooms of
yesterday, today and tomorrow

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Posted on July 1, 2020June 24, 2020

It Was The Thorns

the small pink rose
shed
two tiny tears

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Posted on April 29, 2020April 26, 2020

Protection

last year’s thorns
guard
this year’s growth

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Posted on January 22, 2020January 21, 2020

She Persists


the celebratory nature
of the garden persists
despite winter’s imposed dormancy

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Posted on November 26, 2019November 23, 2019

The Other Cabbage Rose


paradox of the purple bloom
petals holding both
snow and sun

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Posted on September 30, 2019September 28, 2019

Depth Of Bloom


lit
from within
soul of the rose

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Posted on August 6, 2019August 3, 2019

Guilelessness


all of beauty’s
every sustenance
in the simple rose

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Posted on April 26, 2019April 22, 2019

So Succulent A Rose


all growth
is a flowering
this is joy

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Posted on April 18, 2019April 17, 2019

Praise


upon a tree
a lichen rose
praise to anything that grows

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Posted on January 28, 2019January 23, 2019

Gradation

the subtle shift
from hue to hue
comes quietly like insight

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Posted on October 1, 2018September 28, 2018

Decay’s Bouquet


stump blooms
a wood rose
flowering of fungi

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Posted on June 29, 2018June 26, 2018

Still Being With Her Whilst She Is Gone


Jane’s
rose arbor
in the afternoon

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Posted on February 14, 2018February 12, 2018

My Darling Rose


wild grows
my perennial love
her precious winter bloom

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