Life Rose Poems

The Look
Distinction
The Eyes
Beauty
The Embrace
Emotion guaranteed
The Hand
Secured
The Kiss
Fireworks Connection
Moon Romance
Enchanted
The Arrow
Attention
Wine Sip
Refreshing
The Dance
Man and Woman
The Hug
Devoted
Wedding
Commitment as One
Interlude
Love Fire
Honeymoon
Together as Husband and Wife
Everlasting
Love in a new...

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Petals off a blue rose 
Fall like autumn leaves
Seasons change and feelings go
Blown away by summer's breeze

The cold is a reminder
Of the last days I...

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Listen to this grief I tell,
How love away from me didst wind.
And though in time, I think she’ll find
I loved her better – never mind...

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The shimmer that flows,
Across leaves glimmer in sun,
The inner rose posed....

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My love 
If love given is life..
Then you my Love are Immortal..
The Love I give you is infinite...

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To my younger self,
Here's a message to you,
A reference for all you go through,
Take heed from the start,
Cherish your giving heart,
It'll push you beyond limits,
Without...

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Rosebuds draft in scarlet, crimson, or maroon,
dreams to capture the viewer's point of view,
as its blossom's sheath their basis to its prune,
magnificent achievers rise in...

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Rose scented candles burning softly through the night 
aurora rays of holy fanning, beauteous returns
Emerald dreams give birth to dessert moon's ignite   
if...

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The old Grim Reaper, everlasting gate keeper
Lies waiting like a cannibal ‘round the bend,
For every kind of soul turning this life frigid cold 
On the...

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I never knew Santa Claus had a wife,
until I saw her photo on his shelf.
Seems he leads a cozy family life
For the joy he spreads...

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A single witness,
A lone rose,
Who stands proud and majestic.
A single red rose,
Honorable and regal, 
As she brightly lights the room.
Yet, she senses darkness looms,
As the...

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My Rose Garden was devoured by a cow that thought it was a bull.
The farmer and his wife pleaded with the cow to go back...

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Inspired by the beauty of Nature. I love roses. I hope you enjoy seeing them in real life somewhere and smelling their alluring scent. 

Pretty...

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These are nature poems about unusual plants like the moonflower and agave.



Moonflower
by Michael R. Burch

after Robert Hayden

Marveling,
we at last beheld the achieved flower—
both awed and...

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These are modern English translations of poems by the German poets  Ingeborg Bachmann, H. Distler and Johann Georg Jacobi.



“Song”
by Johann Georg Jacobi
translation by Michael...

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