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My Father’s Rose – More Than Just a Flower

April 18, 2019April 18, 2019 John Hansen 1387 Views 8 Comments death, father, memories, Rose, supernatural, yellow rose

The Story Behind My Father’s Rose My wife and I bought a rose bush for my father for his birthday

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Love’s Wilted Rose

February 12, 2018February 23, 2018 Anjana 1678 Views 6 Comments ache, blossom, heart, love, Rose, vacuum, wilted rose

Love’s wilted rose Love’s Wilted Rose… How precious was the beguiling rose bud that once bloomed in our love’s enchanted

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The Duality of a Rose

December 17, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1360 Views 2 Comments beauty, duality, nature, poem, Rose, whole

The delicate petals of a rose, a dichotomy of inward reduction and outward expansion, an interleaved beauty of color and

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In Keeping with Life’s Plan

October 24, 2017 Tony DeLorger 653 Views 2 Comments beauty, death, meaning, poem, Rose, we the same

The rose falls, petals fluttering like butterfly escape, and bruised this delicate velvet bloom, so forlorn to assume an endless

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That Single Rose Sought Blood

June 17, 2017 Tony DeLorger 903 Views 4 Comments aphonic words, blood, broken love, poem, Rose, words unsaid

Sought Blood… Aphonic lips spill, thoughts so red the words unsaid and whispers barely heard, absurdity her quill, her fashioned

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Token of Love and Beauty, the Rose

May 23, 2017May 23, 2017 Phyllis Doyle Burns 2432 Views 18 Comments beauty, erotica, love, poem, Rose, token

Token of Love and Beauty, the Rose … A Token of my Love A red red rose I give

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Difference Between Love and Like

February 18, 2017February 19, 2017 Surabhi Kaura 787 Views 1 Comment Alexander the Great, beauty, kissed, love and like, Rose, socrates

Difference Between Love and Like The day was stupendously inky On the last day of July, I gingerly stepped in

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Flower Language for Valentine’s Day

February 1, 2017February 1, 2017 Phyllis Doyle Burns 1048 Views 4 Comments Eternal love, flower language, love, passionate, Rose, secret message

Flower Language for Valentine’s Day Flower

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Pointless Regret…a lull in a receptive mind

January 12, 2017January 14, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1021 Views 10 Comments future, mistaken, poem, pointless, regret, Rose

Regret I hold like a wilting rose, pale and leached of all color, for what good is my piteous maudlin

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But a Rose, a Simple Rose

December 20, 2016 Tony DeLorger 668 Views 4 Comments beauty, creations, poem, Rose, simple, world

A Simple Rose… The splendor of a rose unfurled, the glory of its scented world, warms an attentive heart as

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Roses by Your Garden

August 26, 2016September 15, 2016 EdF 768 Views 6 Comments eyes, flower, love, Rose

Garden Moving by your path the other day on the way to the village beyond near your gate I saw the beauty

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A Rose and a Writer collide

August 5, 2016August 5, 2016 R J Schwartz 1036 Views 6 Comments love, poet, prose, Rose

As a writer, there are times when my mind is too clouded to put anything of value on the page. Yes,

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Rose…the name of love

July 26, 2016January 22, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1394 Views 4 Comments beauty, love, name, poem, red, Rose

Vibrant Bloom, Rose…the name of love Blood red, velvet layered plumes, curled in symmetry’s loving loom, enticing petals, opened to

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The Fleeting Rose

July 20, 2016January 22, 2017 Tony DeLorger 948 Views 4 Comments cycles, death, eternal, love, poem, Rose

Fleeting Rose…temporary within eternity The rose wilts, its petals curl in, and that fragrance sours to a bitter

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Awakened Heart

July 18, 2016February 18, 2017 Surabhi Kaura 2178 Views 18 Comments dawn, Glow, heart, Rose, Sky, Whispers

Awakened Heart Here I sit at the feet of the Deity, the one who is centered in Peace; A Zen