IF THE ROSEBUD ON THE COVER - A POEM

I took some photos to illustrate

a poem from Late Bloomer

the one about the rosebud on the cover

There she is on the cover

I added a funny journal cover collage

flowers, a bird, pink champagne, a memento

a pink ribbon to tie things together


and added a song I wrote.


You can listen and read at the same time!

If the rosebud could speak, she'd say,
 "Write me a Song"

The rose bush is in the pot on the left

and here's the poem.

If the Rosebud on the Cover

If the rosebud on the cover

could talk, she would tell you

her roots have been in a

pot for a dozen years or so.

She would tell you

her owner placed her by the

patio door, to see her

peach colored blooms and

smell a fragrance of myrrh.

“So few roses have

fragrance, anymore,”

she sighs.

The rosebud would remark that she was

anointed with raindrops in spring

and opened with unusual

beauty and grace,

then faded and died.

If the rosebud on the cover

could talk, she’d say that

something always 

has to die

to be reborn.

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stay tuned . . .