Gathering Rosebuds
once
i gathered flowers in this meadow
(pink hollyhock white stocks and larkspur blue)
and made a petal bed of many colours
(warm marigolds red poppies hen and chicks)
and lay beside you eager in my shyness
(delphiniums and phylox a daisy crown)
now
you gather flowers in this meadow
without me (yellow Canterbury bells)
another lover shares your petal mattress
(violets gerbera and bleeding heart)
you leave behind a bed of different flowers
(dried roses withered leaves a crown of thorns)
Copyright©1965 Ev Clarke (McTaggart)
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