"no one needs roses anymore"
Posted: September 23rd, 2006, 11:12 pm
I need a rose; and honestly, I do.
I need a rose of candid quality—
I don’t need beauty, not perfected form
or sheltered glory, but a common good
transcendent over faultlessness. I need
a rose that blooms with sparse asymmetry
with leopard petals mottled by decay
and aphids comforted within its splay
of ordinary truth’s geometry,
but still a doubtless rose: a rose indeed.
Es ist ein Ros’ entsprungen. Soft and rude:
I need that authenticity conform
to low existence, that equality
exist in hope for whole and good and true.
I need a rose of candid quality—
I don’t need beauty, not perfected form
or sheltered glory, but a common good
transcendent over faultlessness. I need
a rose that blooms with sparse asymmetry
with leopard petals mottled by decay
and aphids comforted within its splay
of ordinary truth’s geometry,
but still a doubtless rose: a rose indeed.
Es ist ein Ros’ entsprungen. Soft and rude:
I need that authenticity conform
to low existence, that equality
exist in hope for whole and good and true.