False Bloom

[dukealien]

A single bud held by a strand.
The blood of petals stains his hand.
Both rose and he seized by remorse,
for no true flower blooms by force.

Very nice iambic tetrameter (often used for comic poetry in English, but this has more depth).

The outward story is clear, interesting, and unusual these days (yes, some respond favorably to a degree of violence, unsafe though that space is).

An attractive feature of the poem is its (to me) ambiguity:  is the rosebud artificial (not true)?  "Blood of petals" is mysterious  (a thought comes unbidden, unsuitable for pursuit beyond the hint that some [figurative] roses only ever have the one bud to lose).  "Strand" is similarly mysterious.

Four words ("strand," "stains," "seized," and "true") are unusual and unexpected in the (outward) context; they give the poem much of its interest, maybe more than the key "remorse" and "force."

Grows on the reader, like an unsolved riddle.  Good.