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AE 11h
If we could hazard a guess, tomorrow is the day everything changes. That's the famous phrase. Something about the way the pink roses on the counter stand so tall and proud. When I was young I envisioned I would be like them someday. Deep into my womanhood, tully aware of the force I have to push with to keep my shoulders up. But I would do it, that's what I believed. These days it's enough to hold the weight of breathing, and enough to move limb after limb. To keep up with the minutes and still meet them up ahead with a gracious smile. On repeat, morning sun to evening moon. Some days my limbs they move me, others I move with them too. That's how it goes. Sometimes the roses are drooping, sometimes they bloom instead. All the time they are alive and present, standing, even as they shed.
Kiss me now
As the rain come down on us
Feeling your body, lemme
fantasize tonight
I’ll fulfill your dreams and together
we stargaze
I loving happily
Come here and fantasize on me
Go half on a child with me,
Go half so I can be papì

I want the chance, to prove
I really care
I want the chance, to show
Im really their
I want the chance, to prove
I really care
I want the chance, to show
Im really their
Dont drift too far away,
The bouquet of roses,
You Caress sweetly within
your palms
Are so much like the ones
I longed to give to you,
To Soothe you through the blue,
Their gaze sighs and exotic blush
Say all that I long to say
In Verse Stanza and Song
Whenever you Unwind
And
Heavenly Sway
With Moonlit diamonds
along our Loves way

Reynaldo Casison
I walk through the garden,
In the light of day,
Rays of pink dawn,
Jumping through the fray.

Strolling long through the roses,
Bushes aligned in a beautiful bouquet.
I ran my hand through their blossoms,
Yet it came back with blood.

Snagged on the same beauty,
I was there to adore.
Dripping to the rocks,
Laying ugly on the floor.
Beauty is deceiving, a trap disguised as a dream.
JAMIL HUSSAIN Feb 12
When the rose, at dawn, unsealed its perfumed lips,  
A discourse, rich as velvet, from its petals slips.  
Each delicate bloom, kissed by the nascent sun,  
Revelled in beauty, where all things are undone.  

The breeze, a suitor with languid grace,  
Whispered, “Are you not perfection, clothed in this space?”  
But the rose, with a glance that was both proud and wise,  
Answered, “Perfection is naught but a lie in disguise."

The sun, all fire, with its golden sword,  
Declared, “In beauty alone, we must be adored.”  
But the rose, poised and regal in its bloom,  
Retorted, “It is in imperfection that we find room.”  

The dew, with a sparkle, like pearls on the sea,  
Asked, “Why, dear rose, this rapture in plea?”  
The rose, with a flourish and languorous sigh,  
Answered, “To live is to seek; to seek is to fly.”  

For power is born in the struggle to live,  
In beauty that dies, but has much to give.  
Excitement is born in existence’s call—  
In truth, we rise, and in truth, we fall.  

The rose knows, as all great souls must,  
That we are but moments—fleeting, yet just.  
And in every petal, with its silken grace,  
We glimpse the eternal in a mortal’s face.
The Philosophy of Petals 12/02/2025 © All Rights Reserved by Jamil Hussain
kel Feb 7
if you bring me roses
I'll tell you I like them half-dead
and petal by petal, the rose closes
as I stare at it from my bed.
would you teach me how to love,
how to love a blooming rose?
your hand could fit mine like a glove
yet I'll still hide the feelings that arose.
I love escaping,
but please hold onto me even if our love is slipping.

I just want somebody to love me.
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A rose who rose above the rest
Not proud, nor made to detest
High in the sky, she goes up
To the sun like a tulip or buttercup
And I, so distant, built to be resilient
Shrouded by those with murderous intent
I among the weeds, bound by my deeds
But a thought of her had me feel as freed
And then did wend to me a friend
The kind whom to my wounds did tend
Saying, those with thorns tend to mourn
She stands above it all, not fearing the norms
A work in progress looking for input
Zywa Jan 30
She's upset: I didn't

look at her for a second --


but at the roses.
Quatrain #1776 "I went strolling with my beloved" (13th century, Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi)

Collection "Love Mind and Death"
Ali Jarallah Jan 28
My love for you is the roses
Forever blossoming
Kept in an icy crystal
That refuses shattering
My love for you is the sky
Forever widening
Where only the free birds fly
And no bad is happening
Petals soft and pink,
Thorns hidden beneath their bloom,
Love’s gentle warning.
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