Thursday, March 22, 2007

    Poetry Thursday #12


    Today's challenge is: "Write a poem motivated by an image — preferably one that is in the form of a photo you can post with your poem. If you don’t have a picture of it, that’s okay. Tell us about the image in the backstory, which you can post before your poem. Or, if you’re really daring, grab your camera and get out there and capture an image and use it as motivation for a poem."

    This was written some time ago. I've enjoyed pulling it out and rereading it, and didn't change a word. It was inspired by a very real yellow rose in a real garden on a July day so hot it was breathless, but with a slight breeze. The rose's participation with the two not-meant-to-be lovers, including its dried and desicated end, is all imagination. Or maybe it's a memory--like the rose, I've forgotten. Lamentations might have been a better book in which to place such a flower, but it had too many syllables. It has fabulous phrases and images of bitter tears if you ever need that for a poem. However, isn't the book of Job closer to the symbol of all that can go wrong, will?
















    The last rose
    by Norma Bruce
    July 1997

    Yellow rose in the garden
    Blushed peach by her cheeks,
    Splashed pale with his white passion.

    Yellow rose in the sunlight
    Fragrant in their hands,
    Waving good-byes to July.

    Yellow rose in the clippers
    Snipped between kisses,
    Pricking her finger crimson.

    Yellow rose in the crystal
    Filled with his hot tears,
    Shedding thorns against the glass.

    Yellow rose in the Bible
    Faded summer joy,
    Pressed between pages of Job.Source URL: https://maryelizabeth-winstead.blogspot.com/2007/03/poetry-thursday-12-todays-challenge-is.html
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