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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?
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Has Therese of Lisieux paid a visit
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(05-17-2021, 06:42 AM)dukealien Wrote: 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?
How sad. Very sad.
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(05-17-2021, 07:07 AM)CRNDLSM Wrote: Has Therese of Lisieux paid a visit
I cannot categorically refute that thesis. (And what an interesting reference, which led on to Edith Piaf and regretting nothing.)
@Majestic Sun - Guess one could hope to have always been just a burr under house & garden's saddle. Despite their color, those roses didn't appear particularly brooding...
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I like how you refer to it as a little house you'll soon be selling. I think that's my favorite part of the poem.
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(09-19-2021, 11:21 AM)ISawASpaceship Wrote: I like how you refer to it as a little house you'll soon be selling. I think that's my favorite part of the poem.
It may be of interest that I sold my little house to a nice young family who seemed quite pleased with it. I trust it now feels fulfilled.
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