THE PARADOX
  • Home
  • The Paradox Lit Mag
  • The Paradox Lit E-Zine
  • Our Philosophy
Home

Rosebush

21/7/2024

0 Comments

 
Picture
​Many offered a hand to set me free.
I told them to wear gloves
and to beware of the thorns
hidden amongst the blooms,
ready to penetrate their skin,
but no one heeded my warning,
 
they were enchanted
by the fragrance,
bewitched by the beauty,
the pastel pink delicacy
of petals pleading to be picked
and blind to the thorns
ready to pierce
ready to strike,
 
thorns as hidden as the worms,
the maggoty munchers
now metamorphosing
into manifestations
of  new growth,
hands
ungloved
and unmarked
elegantly enticing them
to join me in the dark
unsettling heart.

The author of this poem is Lynn White. 
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    SUBMIT

    Writers /Artists/Poets

    All
    Adriana Rocha
    Antreka Tladi
    Arthur Heifetz
    Bart Edelman
    Ben Nardolilli
    Binod Dawadi
    Bruce Gunther
    Cathy LaForge Tonkin
    David Williams
    Dominik Slusarczyk
    DS Maolalai
    Edward L. Canavan
    Emily L. Quint Freeman
    Emma Grey Rose
    Evie Groch
    Fabrice Poussin
    Farrah Lucia
    ​Frank William Finney
    Frederick Pollack
    Gerard Sarnat
    G.M.H. Thompson
    Heikki Huotari
    James Burt
    Jeffrey Zable
    Jim Landwehr
    John RC Potter
    Jonathan Chibuike Ukah
    Josie Hughes
    Julian Gallo
    Julius Fish
    Karen Vogt
    Les Bernstein
    Linette Rabsatt
    Lynn White
    Mahvash K. Mohtadullah
    Marcelo Medone
    Mark J. Mitchell
    Martin Indars
    Melissa St. Pierre
    Mena Hannakachl
    Michael Penny
    Micky Shorr
    Mike Wilson
    Nick Young
    Pablo Otavalo
    Pawel Markiewicz
    Peter Conrad
    Peter Mladinic
    Robert Pope
    Ronald Micci
    Sheila E. Murphy
    Shontay Luna
    Soramimi Hanarejima
    Stephen Bett
    Thirdy Japsay
    ​Thomas Piekarski
    Thomas Zimmerman
    Tom Ball
    Tom Misuraca
    William Doreski

    DONATE
Copyright © 2015
Privacy Disclaimer
  • Home
  • The Paradox Lit Mag
  • The Paradox Lit E-Zine
  • Our Philosophy