🌹Suns N Roses 🌹

“The rose does not bloom without thorns.”

— Richter

Women Are Not Roses

Women have no

beginning

only continual

flows.

Though rivers flow

women are not

rivers.

Women are not

roses

they are not oceans

or stars.

i would like to tell

her this but

i think she

already knows.

  ― Ana Castillo

Here’s a blush rose,

with raspberry scent.

Here’s a pink,

come taste the edge.

And here, my dear,

upon the stair,

is simply the hip

of a white-blue rose

I’ve carried up

to bed.

— L.L. Barkat