<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=553129" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>For Veronica, Instead</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">For centuries, poets have been getting it wrong.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They bring 'one perfect rose' to show their love <br>to their lovers, but now I think<br>they were mistaken.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I saw a rose today growing<br>behind the fence of someone's backyard.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The bloom was yellow edged with red<br>with the obligatory dew glistening on the petals, <br>the bud pouting open high in the green bush, <br>so I bent the branch down to me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There I was on the sidewalk, the flower fresh in my hand<br>but forgive me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I couldn't bring myself to snap the stem of the rose<br>so you could watch petals dropp for days<br>in the slow dying<br>displayed in a jar on the kitchen table.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Love is nothing like a dead rose anyway.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The florist will never tape this poem to his cash register<br>to sell flowers now, <br>since I left the rose among green leaves.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Instead, I bring you these words, <br>alive, <br>just like the rose.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Eric+Paul+Shaffer">Eric Paul Shaffer</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=553129" data-title="For Veronica, Instead de Eric Paul Shaffer" data-description="For centuries, poets have been getting it wrong. They bring 'one perfect rose' to show their love to their lovers, but now I think they were mistaken. I saw a rose today growing behind the fence of someone's backyard. The bloom was yellow edge..."></div> </div> </div>

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