An Attempt at A Poem about Roses

Roses in my rose garden

I love roses

yellow roses

fragrant roses

seems I can’t have both

store-bought are beautiful

but lack fragrance

homegrown are pretty

and smell so sweet

when cut and brought inside.

I had a rose garden

snatched away from me

unceremoniously.

I can buy myself roses

it’s just not the same

as growing them myself.

My favourite

Tagging Keeley’s clan — Autistic Widower (“AJ”), Brett Jenae Tomlin, Harry Hogg, The Sturg, Vidya Sury, Collecting Smiles, Richard Bailey, Marilyn Flower, Trisha Faye, Karen Schwartz, NancyO, Robert G. Longpré, Katie Michaelson, Bernie Pullen, Laure Dorsemaine, Debika Kumari, Michelle Jimerson Morris, redkitewrites, Celia McKinley, Charisse Tyson, Amy Frances, Julia A. Keirns, Ravyne Hawke, Pamela Oglesby, Toni the Talker, Cathy Cremer, Kayla Tackett, Pat Romito LaPointe, Anna Itzel Cazita, Misty Rae, Karen Hofmann, Susie Winfield, Vincent Pisano, Keeley Schroder, Paula Shablo, Bruce Coulter, Ellen Baker, Kelley Murphy, Leigh-Anne Dennison, Jennifer Marla Pike, Carmen Ballesteros, Marlana, MSW, Patricia Timmermans, Ray Day, Marlene Samuels, Randy Pulley, Michael Rhodes, Lu Skerdoo, Lauren Alida and of course me, Adrienne Beaumont.