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White Roses
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"You may break, you may shatter,
the vase if you will,
but the scent of roses will hang round it still" - Charles Lamb
She bleeds pearly white,
the cloudy ice
of a frozen heart.
No crimson stain
records the rape of this
virgin bride,
swathed in a veil of
illusions and false words.
She snaps the reigns of
her chariot of carousel horses,
and returns to her
cloistered walls,
a pagan nun
bethrothed
to a dream of love,
stillborn.
A wraith of dreams
weeping a penance of tears,
a powdery perfume
of molding white roses.
- Jan Kingsford