A flower was offered to me with soulful, bounding leap;
while a desire for love unbridled had tied me to caprice.
Smitten so deep to core, I found not budding thorn; thus
flower arduous to hold bade silence recondite to keep.
Lo! flower bewitching had lured and heart had plunged too
deep beneath oh shade of willow, I heard it scorn and weep.
We learn from heavens soft that reside somewhere above;
While searching for love eternal be wary if raven or dove.
Fragile secrets seep from flower;
Beauty blighted within an hour.
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Posted for Midweek Motif @ Poets United
“be wary if raven or dove.” Nice!
As you show, flowers have their secrets that take time to unfold.
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Beautiful lines…
“Fragile secrets seep from flower;”— Memory and smell are intertwined; smells really do evoke emotional memories. …
Great piece, Sanaa! Just love love this…
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“Be wary if raven or dove” – such wise advice. I LOVE your beautiful closing couplet. Beautifully done.
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Ah, I am sure flowers have MANY secrets! And not all of them pleasant ones. Smiles!
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“Fragile secrets seep from flower;
Beauty blighted within an hour.”
Just loved these lines! Beautifully done, Sanaa… <3 🙂
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Beautifully done Sanaa. A lovely poem with wise advice, “Be wary if raven or dove”.
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Those last two lines make a tangle of my heartstrings. *sigh*
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Flowers are traps that lure of course and we both use and are are lured by them. So if I am struck by a pretty face I will so easily be lured into her trap too…fool that I am ! I think I would trust a Raven more than a Dove. Beautifully done Sanaa.
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I am puzzled over the form of this…if indeed it is one 🙂 Raven or dove …that is the question 🙂
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Sanaa–there is a wonderful tender quality to this writing–such an elegant voice you use in this piece and it works so well on so many levels–Brava
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fragile secrets… like that.
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I love the progression; the mystery.
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Oh Sanaa, the poem is beauty itself specially the closing couplets and wise too…
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Beautiful!
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Alas, some flowers are not made to last!
I enjoy your enjoyment of lush language.
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I really like this.
It’s terrifying when someone gets through and plunges too deep. It can make us behave in bizarre, unpredictable ways.
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Bewitching Sanaa – you seemed really lost in this and in turn produced an entrancing poem for us all to delight in 🙂
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Fragile secrets of a flower has so much to tell and teach us.
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Smitten so deep to core, I found not budding thorn – such profound words. Love blinds us to faults.
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Flowers inspire us to write poetry don’t they? A lovely verse with an old fashioned feel.
Sorry I am so late to reply Sunny one 🙂
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The last two lines are wonderful! Good write, Sanaa.
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Beautiful in its elegance. It has the quality of ancient poetry, with a lovely couplet ending.
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