White Roses



What is Purity? Mere innocence?
Perhaps, in that innocence is absence.
The blue eyed baby is only potential.
But absence is nothingness, and purity's
something-ness, an all-of-one-kind-ness, a sheening.
Galahad was pure.
He was allowed to see the Grail
but not to
drink from it:
Purity takes you only
part of the way.




What is a white rose?
White light, sum of all colors.
And absence is nothingness, but a white rose
is a breathing sheen,
a chalice of cream
well-sculpted, and so
like the sight of the Grail,
it can take you, though not all of the way,
sometimes
far enough.







Rosa
'Secret Garden Musk Climber'
'Sombreuil'
'Kaiserin Auguste Viktoria'
'Kaiserin Auguste Viktoria'
'Bolero'
'Lichfield Angel'
'Glamis Castle'
'Pope John Paul II'

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