Tears and Sun – Repost (with something new)

I am reposting this poem and illustration – adding a painting of my mom’s, which I had never seen before last night. It is so very different from mine; I even think it fits my poem better.

And before the month is out, I just had to post something from June!

Find me a yellow rose

In bud and blossom

and withering too;

Give me its thorny prose

needing tears and sun

with nothing to do.
Leave me its secret blush

hiding love and loss

and dried up hope;

Compare me to its hush

speaking true and false

with a heart to cope.
There in the garden

to live without picking;

red rose to pardon

that drinks without sipping.

Copyright 2013 by Diane’s mom, June

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