The Rose Bush
Memories24 total reviews
Comment from poetwatch
The beauty of roses will always adorn my home, for they bring life to any garden as well as "scented memories" of love, Melissa. I like your pink roses. I have red, gold, two-tone, pink, small, medium, large. I lost my white rose as well as my purple rose.
reply by the author on 20-Jan-2019
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The beauty of roses will always adorn my home, for they bring life to any garden as well as "scented memories" of love, Melissa. I like your pink roses. I have red, gold, two-tone, pink, small, medium, large. I lost my white rose as well as my purple rose.
Comment Written 20-Jan-2019
reply by the author on 20-Jan-2019
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I adore roses too and give you heartfelt condolences on loosing the purple and white... I have four rose bushes.. total, but plan to add more this year. Thanks for the delightful review.
Melissa
Comment from Mark Valentine
I can imagine someone giving this a casual reading, thinking "Oh, that's nice", giving it five stars and moving on. I hope people let this sink in and appreciate its brilliance. Starting with the wonderful phrase, "scented memories", the rose bush becomes a metaphor. The fact that they are outside and the person remembering is inside evokes old age reflecting on youth - a part of the metaphor that is reinforced by the image of snow and the personification of the rose bush, that is now sleeping.
Awesome! What poetry is supposed to be.
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I can imagine someone giving this a casual reading, thinking "Oh, that's nice", giving it five stars and moving on. I hope people let this sink in and appreciate its brilliance. Starting with the wonderful phrase, "scented memories", the rose bush becomes a metaphor. The fact that they are outside and the person remembering is inside evokes old age reflecting on youth - a part of the metaphor that is reinforced by the image of snow and the personification of the rose bush, that is now sleeping.
Awesome! What poetry is supposed to be.
Comment Written 20-Jan-2019
reply by the author on 20-Jan-2019
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Thanks so very much, Mark. I am delighted that you see further into this than most have done. I am very grateful for your insightful review.
Melissa
Comment from Irish Rain
And those are BEAUTIFUL roses!
I love the phrase 'scented memories'....it just sounds like a rose phrase, ha ha.
This is charming Miss Melissa!
Blessings...
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And those are BEAUTIFUL roses!
I love the phrase 'scented memories'....it just sounds like a rose phrase, ha ha.
This is charming Miss Melissa!
Blessings...
Comment Written 20-Jan-2019
reply by the author on 20-Jan-2019
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Thank you, Judy. I am delighted you like it and hope you can remember your own sweet memories.
Melissa
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I was just today thinking of planting a rose bush just like this, this summer!
Comment from Joan E.
Thank you for sharing these "scented memories" and the lovely photograph. I admired your personifying the pink rose bush. I could almost smell its perfume under the snow! Smiles- Joan
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Thank you for sharing these "scented memories" and the lovely photograph. I admired your personifying the pink rose bush. I could almost smell its perfume under the snow! Smiles- Joan
Comment Written 20-Jan-2019
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Thanks so much, Joan. I appreciate it.
Melissa
Comment from Dean Kuch
Lovely thought, Melissa.
Well expressed.
Most like to think of Winter as a season of death.
Not me.
I like to believe Winter is merely a new chapter to a new beginning in the unyielding, never ending cycle of life.
Well penned...
~Dean
reply by the author on 20-Jan-2019
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Lovely thought, Melissa.
Well expressed.
Most like to think of Winter as a season of death.
Not me.
I like to believe Winter is merely a new chapter to a new beginning in the unyielding, never ending cycle of life.
Well penned...
~Dean
Comment Written 20-Jan-2019
reply by the author on 20-Jan-2019
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Thank you, Dean. I agree that it is definitely part of the cycle... just the sleeping part.
Melissa
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Sure thing.
Comment from LovnPeace
Well said. Sleep as we all do in the winder of rest. A time was healing and mending. It is so important to well being. I sleep against my will at time. Nature knows best. Blessings, Barbara
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Well said. Sleep as we all do in the winder of rest. A time was healing and mending. It is so important to well being. I sleep against my will at time. Nature knows best. Blessings, Barbara
Comment Written 20-Jan-2019
reply by the author on 20-Jan-2019
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Hey, Barbara... thank you very much for the lovely review.
Melissa
Comment from Mistydawn
That's a bad thing about winter everything sleeps making the world seem so dull, colorless. Your poem is well-written, interesting, disheartning but unfortunatly true. Your artwork is beautiful, I love that light pink color.
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That's a bad thing about winter everything sleeps making the world seem so dull, colorless. Your poem is well-written, interesting, disheartning but unfortunatly true. Your artwork is beautiful, I love that light pink color.
Comment Written 20-Jan-2019
reply by the author on 20-Jan-2019
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Thank you, Misty. I am very fond of pink roses...
All the best,
Melissa
Comment from Teresa Alford
Do you have lots of flowers in your yard? Perhaps you are a Master Gardener?? Anyway, your flower poem is lovely. I smell the scent as I read. Roses are my favorite. TA ":~)
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Do you have lots of flowers in your yard? Perhaps you are a Master Gardener?? Anyway, your flower poem is lovely. I smell the scent as I read. Roses are my favorite. TA ":~)
Comment Written 20-Jan-2019
reply by the author on 20-Jan-2019
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They are my favorite too... I have a few rose bushes that I love and I am a certified Master Gardener here in central Virginia too. I enjoy having beautiful flowers around.
Melissa
Comment from lyenochka
I like that the "rose bush sleeps." And the scent of rose is not forgotten as we know smells conjure up the memories in a powerful way. Lovely picture of English roses, too!
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I like that the "rose bush sleeps." And the scent of rose is not forgotten as we know smells conjure up the memories in a powerful way. Lovely picture of English roses, too!
Comment Written 20-Jan-2019
reply by the author on 20-Jan-2019
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Thanks so much, Helen.
All the best
Melissa
Comment from Mrs. KT
Hello Melissa!
So...the very first thing I noticed when I clicked on your offering was the photograph. I thought to myself, 'That's a David Austin English rose!' Imagine how thrilled I was to discover I was right! But I digress...
Your poem is lovely - filled with strong emotion and imagery...just like jasmine and daylilies... :)
Think spring!
And thank you for sharing!
diane
reply by the author on 20-Jan-2019
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Hello Melissa!
So...the very first thing I noticed when I clicked on your offering was the photograph. I thought to myself, 'That's a David Austin English rose!' Imagine how thrilled I was to discover I was right! But I digress...
Your poem is lovely - filled with strong emotion and imagery...just like jasmine and daylilies... :)
Think spring!
And thank you for sharing!
diane
Comment Written 20-Jan-2019
reply by the author on 20-Jan-2019
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Hello Diane... I am so glad you are a kindred spirit!! I cannot believe you and I did not win at that flower thing.... Maybe we should have written of roses. LOL.. Thanks a bunch for the review... hugs.
Melissa
