Thursday, February 16, 1995

INSIDE THE HEART OF THE ROSE (see Hikmet poem)


Inside the heart of the rose
is a secret chamber
Where is the where the silent worm waits 
for darkness to creep out of the sky
Because there are no other parallels 
for death, it feeds upon the pollen 
that falls into the center of life. 
Beyond the edges of the petals
a whole green universe is waiting 
for the sun to rise above it, 
to take it toward completion.
The voices of birds move away 
from the thoughts of roses.

Higham Family School
16 February 1995


I recycled this in a longer poem
I DIDN'T KNOW I LOVED—after Hikmet

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