Tuesday, 21 May 2019

Poetry Blog 203 White Rose




WHITE ROSE

This small poem is based around the metrical foot known as a choriamb. That is one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed then one more stressed ( / - - / ), as in "over the hills" or blossoms like dawn. In some lines there is an extra short syllable at the beginning or end- a white-shining rose.
The poem uses the image of the white rose both as its own reality and as a symbol. 

 


WHITE ROSE

Light-petalled, fine-scented,
a white-shining rose,
coming forth from
a serration of leaves
and thorn-sharp hard stem,

blossoms like dawn.

Tell me that beauty
is but in the eye;
tell me the blind truth,
tell me that lie.

For still the rose flowers
as white as new light
through sight-giving sky:
flower in a flowering
of shining that's other,
of shining that's finer
than censor eyes see.

Gaze in the silence,
listen with seeing-
forever the rose
embowers heart's being.



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