ODE TO A ROSE…

Dear all,

This work is inspired by many such ROSE pictures like these that can be found in Chandana’s- MYRIAD HUES album.

After a look at this, who can think to oppose

as Stein rightly said “rose is a rose is a rose”. (1)

To the eyes, it is such a pretty treat

which nothing else, in this world, can beat.

The Bard had gone onto to give it a name

as he felt that incase it wanted some fame

it could go about having a sweet smell (2)

so that others, about it, would go onto tell.

For Chaucer, were someone’s thoughts night and day

as he remembered something about the month of May.

Maybe she was really like this, so very fair (3)

as a thought made him on the face, a smile ,to wear.

Few like Bates probably had got a gift from above

as in her life, the rose was a symbol of love. (4)

Though it is something that we all expect

few are those, in its true form, this, they get.

A minuscule of them, apparently dont’ve a clue

as to what a rose like this, has as its value.

Anne Bronte went onto rightly, to those, warn

that they mustn’t s crave if they didn’t like the thorn. (5)

Ray Evans opined to leave it with the sun and rain

or else, some promise, he thought, would be in vain. (6)

Maybe by being bound by some sort of an obligation

he felt was the way to always receive gratification.

Like these can be seen in life that is a garden

for Buscaglia, it was like a friend from heaven (7)

which probably meant, to him, everything

or else, he wouldn’t even get anything.

George Curtis felt he had a magic wand

as the moment a rose reached his hand

it always gave him some sort of fragrance (8)

that, for him, was like a gift from providence.

There is much more that can be said as a power

that is there in this innocent and beautiful flower.

Generations have gone and many more will come

but eulogies on these, will be there as a lumpsum.

References:

(1) "Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose." -Gertrude Stein

(2) “What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”- William Shakespeare

(3) “And she was fair as is the rose in May.”- Geoffrey Chaucer

(4 “Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.”- Katharine Lee Bates

(5) “But he that dares not grasp the thorn should never crave the rose.”- Anne Bronte

(6) “A rose must remain with the sun and the rain or its lovely promise won't come true.”- Ray Evans

(7) “A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.”- Leo Buscaglia

(8) “The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.”- George William Curtis