POEM: Rose Garden Promise

March 11, 2013 · Scotorum

This collab was composed for the CPC Saturday Share poetry challenge. The main line was “I never promised you a rose garden” and other writers contributed more lines from that.

ROSE GARDEN PROMISE

I still love the rose frangrance yet,
that you wore the first day we met.
The bottle as a keepsake I kept
as a reminder of you as I slept.

You opened your heart as in my heart crept.
Like dust before a Swiffer, you let yourself be swept.
With an open heart you did accept.
Now all this love for you I have kept.

In the rose garden we promised
In fidelity we would persist
Since then we have been blessed and blissed
With love and luck we have been kissed.

Our garden beauty is more than sublime
especially in the summertime
when we enjoy a quiet suppertime (Flossie)
and write about it in a rhyme.

The gardeners who propagated a line: barbara k., Bettie (6), Diane, Flossie (2).

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