Rather life to lose if love should leave

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If love should leave thus so my life would fade
A withered husk of hale and hearty bloom
That formerly in paradise was laid,
A knitted rose on lap of living's loom.

Yet if that life should leave for lack of love,
New vehicle of stars would I assume.
For loving's lack my coremost will would shove
Preparing me, a smiling cosmic groom.

And when to void I'd wed would be divined
By parallax of seasons past and come.
The glorious prospect of our souls combined
Erasing memory of my roselike thumb.

No flower I but that which burns to ash,
Divorced from life, remain in loving gash.

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If delicate in heart, then rough in eyes,
A sapling scarred, enlarged by life, enflamed.
A gruff exterior a fine disguise
For youthly fears and aspirance unaimed.

Or bullseye chance may shift erratically,
Or ponderance of stiff age mayhaps distort
Or warbling inner voice emphatically
Declare excuse in endless loud retort.

But babe and man smooth shift in one accord,
Outside of time in sacred vessel swift.
And reconciling grace their joint afford
The paradox of living weight to lift.

So loft from hence, so left behind a life
Which now appears but emptiness and strife.

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Poetry by
@d-pend
11/28/17
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Photography by
somadjinn

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1 — "Pink Rose Macro"
2 — "Dolly Sods Fantasy Trail"
3 — "Cosmic Rose"
4 — "Sapphire Sanctuary"

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