poems

ROSE

a rose never asked to be named

language-locked into a single idea

never enough to explore dynamism

the word was only apt in the moment of its creation

a rose will never tell you of its beauty

or of its plans to bloom

it never explains its thorns

or asks to be nurtured, carried beyond its natural failings

it simply is and does

and if we are listening and seeking

if we see and understand

from a place of no history, no future

we find the moment

of an ever-emerging ‘rose’