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| Note that most of the poems here are taken from my membership days as a poet at the PoetryBoard. It was a chatboard where we converse in poetry and hiakus. It was a real challenge because some of the members were really good. I've tried to put a name to the poems although there were many that I couldn't remember. Most do not have titles, as like I've said, they were our conversations and conversations do not come with titles. I've tried giving them one but still some are better without. : ) See if you can guess which ones were written by me. |
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| The Single Rose A single rose as sentinel stood at the old woman's kitchen door a reminder of the man she had loved for sixty years plus four. Their life together had been great joy before he left her late last fall she knew that next to his love for her he had loved his roses best of all. He had tended his roses with such loving care like his children he had watched them grow as each young bloom its promise filled his eyes with pure pride would glow. Through the kitchen window she'd watch him work and a smile it would bring to her face as she marveled at each beautiful rose at each one's beauty and each ones' grace. Each day he'd rise with the morning sun at the day's awakening hour to pick for her one perfect rose one dew kissed beautiful flower. She had found him there in his garden spot the morning he had passed away and in his hand was a single rose the one chosen for her that day. Each day now she walks to his resting place, and lays a rose on his marker stone she tells him how his garden fairs and how she feels so all alone. But this morning with the rising sun she felt she could sleep no more she made her way through the lonely house through the kitchen to her back door. And standing there waiting for her in his old familiar pose stood the man that she had loved so much and in his hand was a single rose. No fear she felt as she took his hand it was happiness she felt once more as side by side they walked a rose lined path that led them both to Heaven's door Faith Godbey |