• The rose,
    a portrait of beauty,
    prickly and painful,
    a fragrance sweet and red,
    an aurora shadows its call,
    covered with droplets wet as the rain,
    petals smooth as velvet,
    soft and well formed,
    a stem stiff as iron,
    green as the forest,
    but covered with little pricks,
    tiny but demanding,
    the rose,
    stands out from other flowers,
    layered with deep lush, a symbol of love,
    deep within it's bulb.