{"id":91238,"date":"2012-06-20T23:35:35","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T03:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/91238\/poem-love-rose\/"},"modified":"2012-06-20T23:35:35","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T03:35:35","slug":"poem-love-rose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/91238\/poem-love-rose\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: My Love Is Like A Rose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong><em>This was written and designed for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendburst.com\/blog\/90161\/thematic-attic-thursdaybeauty-rose\/\">CPC Thematic Attic Thursday poetry challenge<\/a>. \u00a0The theme is roses. \u00a0I did mine as a Shakespearean love sonnet with an extra introductory stanza because we are writing summer romance love sonnets on the CPC Friday Fling this week.<\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/PicnPoems\/?action=view&amp;current=MyLoveIsLikeARose62012.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/PicnPoems\/MyLoveIsLikeARose62012.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"MyLoveIsLikeARose62012\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong> ANTECEDENTS<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong>While pondering what signs come from above<br \/>\nto represent importances in life,<br \/>\nmethinks the rose resembles lady love<br \/>\nsignifying she who would be my wife.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong>MY LOVE IS LIKE A ROSE<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong>Up from a seedling watered in sunlight<br \/>\ngrows foliage and stems with thorns to warn:<br \/>\nthis floral specimen no one should slight<br \/>\nor thy might wish to never have been born.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong>From out the thorny bush there grows a bud,<br \/>\nwhich being tightly packed shows hopeful shine.<br \/>\nIt reassures against the chance of dud,<br \/>\nwhen blossoming brings color, fragrance fine.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong>And sure enough, great promise is fulfilled!<br \/>\nwhen blooming out reveals such interlace<br \/>\nof petals delicate as could be willed.<br \/>\nNaught but divinity could mold that face!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong>My fingers lightly rub each petal&#8217;s red,<br \/>\nwhile mind and heart to lovers&#8217; joy are wed.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"3\"><strong>Copyright June 20th 2012 RGD<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was written and designed for the CPC Thematic Attic Thursday poetry challenge. \u00a0The theme is roses. \u00a0I did mine as a Shakespearean love sonnet with an extra introductory stanza because we are writing summer romance love sonnets on the CPC Friday Fling this week. ANTECEDENTS While pondering what signs come from above to represent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}