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The Late​-​Blooming Rose

by K1 (aka Chris Kermiet)

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The Late-Blooming Rose
Poem-of-the-month, October 2023, @
poemofthemonth.us

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The late-blooming rose is always best
for its flower is full 'til the winter rains.
Then its petals stain the ground with a brilliant red
and the early rose is long dead—its beauty spent.
Only a scraggy and thorny bush remains
to remind you of what it once was.

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released October 1, 2023

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K1 Denver, Colorado

K1 (aka Chris Kermiet) has had several careers in his lifetime: as a jazz performer and arranger, a rock drummer and record producer, a traditional dance caller and teacher (contras, squares, English Country Dance), and as a composer (primarily electronic and choral music). He's been writing poems since his early 20's, and has been putting them online, one per month, for the last 7 years. ... more

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