Thursday, April 5, 2018

You Are the Rose About to Bloom

April 5, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since trees, plants, and flowers are about to bloom, this week’s theme is bloom as a metaphor.

Today’s poem is from parents to their daughter about a difference in perspective.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

You are the rose about to bloom,
The color soon to wake,
The perfume set to scent the breeze,
The bud about to break.

You stand upon the lip of time
Alight with what will be,
And see yourself out to the sky
Across the open sea.

We see you vertically, a gift
Too beautiful to plumb,
And treasure all the years you were
And all the years to come.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/rosebl.html. For more poems to children, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/childrenpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Bloom as a Metaphor
April 2: Fifty-Three
April 3: Stephen
April 5: You Are the Rose About to Bloom

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