<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=448247" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Silk Rose</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">She made me a silk rose<br>for my summertime; <br>thornless<br>and I<br>in youth's haze<br>mistook it as gesture only<br>and fed it to my ego.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She leaned to kiss me in Summer Light<br>a gift she'd never offered to anyone before; <br>I took in her breath blithfully<br>she exhaled<br>merely smiling<br>her wise smile<br>older than her years; <br>twilight shadows playing upon her face<br>as I oar'ed the boat<br>behind her house<br>she drinking in my rough vitality<br>and I<br>realizing that Beauty had given Beast his first kiss.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I reach for her<br>sensing<br>her undeployed innocence<br>caressing it in my mind<br>seating it in my body<br>drinking it<br>as she sat across from me<br>smiling her gentle gaze<br>we both<br>then<br>ceasing to need<br>to row that boat<br>paused; <br>gentled by the river currents<br>oars now floating away<br>we both<br>bewitched in the gloaming<br>breeze blowing<br>in her hair<br>the sinews of my heart parting<br>releasing those tiny realizations<br>of gifted moments<br>we most times<br>understand as human gifts<br>only in later years.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Years pass and the river is before me now<br>I conjure that moment past<br>and your silk rose<br>and if it is not too late</div><div style="margin:10px 0">offer you<br>these<br>words<br>in my memory's caress<br>and a single<br>rose-lensed<br>kiss.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lonnie+Hicks">Lonnie Hicks</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=448247" data-title="A Silk Rose de Lonnie Hicks" data-description="She made me a silk rose for my summertime; thornless and I in youth's haze mistook it as gesture only and fed it to my ego. She leaned to kiss me in Summer Light a gift she'd never offered to anyone before; I took in her breath blithfully she e..."></div> </div> </div>

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