05-17-2021, 06:42 AM
Mystery Bouquet
In its long-untended garden
on a tall ungainly stem
little house I’ll soon be selling
raised a spray of dark-red roses.
What’s your meaning, house and garden,
with this wordless show of blooms?
Do you mean to say “Good riddance”
or to bid a sad farewell?
In its long-untended garden
on a tall ungainly stem
little house I’ll soon be selling
raised a spray of dark-red roses.
What’s your meaning, house and garden,
with this wordless show of blooms?
Do you mean to say “Good riddance”
or to bid a sad farewell?
Non-practicing atheist

