The Beautiful Red Flower
Adam Roy Carrigan 1985 (Winnipeg, MB)
Have you ever been in a garden full of roses at night?
And you saw the most beautiful red flower?
You reach out to touch it
Only for it one day to collapse and cower
Was the flower always destined to die?
Or did you somehow cause its death?
You did your best to take care of it
But in the end, everything takes it’s last breath
How can something so wonderful leave?
Are we stuck in a cycle of beauty that turns to rot?
How did something so youthful just disappear?
To be here yesterday, but for today it’s just not
As the years go by, the garden is now gone
Replaced by rock, steel, and rusted iron
I still remember the beautiful red flower
For she was my lovely crimson siren
About this poem
This about life and love and how some times life can just end instantly (or relationships in my case). The flower represents my love, but now the flower is gone and so to is my ability to want to love another. If I think some nights if I focus enough, I can remember what love feels like.
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Written on September 26, 2023
Submitted by adamroycarrigan on September 26, 2023
Modified by adamroycarrigan on October 03, 2023
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| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
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| Words | 143 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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