<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460406" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>0011 Blown Rose Wise</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">How wise<br>the rose? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">near the shortest day, <br>the seasons all confused this year<br>even the great globe itself<br>confused by man</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and on this gusty day<br>a rose throws<br>itself upon the world<br>simultaneously hero, heroine, victim<br>seen calling through the window; <br>if it were a child alone out there<br>you would rush out to save it</div><div style="margin:10px 0">does the rose know<br>how beautiful it is? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">or is it wiser than we are, <br>knows more of love? <br>of law? <br>looks tenderly upon<br>man’s need for beauty, <br>frail reassurance<br>of the beauty of our own soul</div><div style="margin:10px 0">any moment now<br>the wind will tear its weakening petals</div><div style="margin:10px 0">yet I saw it while it lasted, as if<br>the only rose in the world</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and before it returned<br>to wherever the souls of roses<br>sigh, laugh, smile, <br>return to eternal Rose</div><div style="margin:10px 0">it wrote this poem in – to it –<br>an unfamiliar language<br>that tried to translate<br>its beauty into me</div><div style="margin:10px 0">wiser, in some way, <br>than I</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</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=460406" data-title="0011 Blown Rose Wise de Michael Shepherd" data-description="How wise the rose? near the shortest day, the seasons all confused this year even the great globe itself confused by man and on this gusty day a rose throws itself upon the world simultaneously hero, heroine, victim seen calling through the wi..."></div> </div> </div>

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