Scarlet Rose

Scarlet Rose

Frightened puckered up
Malevolent malicious
She was a red rose
A crystalline red rose
Fragile sensuous
volatile voluptuous.

And her bud
Closed tight for a kiss
Refusing to blossom
Refusing to bloom
Refusing to wither and fall
To be tossed out at last
Yesterday's trash.

Rabidly crimson refusal
Destiny's devious tryst
And collecting herself inwards
In most unnatural
Twists.

Red Jezebel chrysalis
Scarlet demi goddess
Pagan oriental opiate
For dulled starving senses
The dogs eat your ochre flesh
Spattered on the street
Ravished by curs
Refusing the ravages
Of time.

She was a red rose.
On her Caliph's
Carpeted cage.
Queen of his frosty
Imperial sultanate.
A guilt rose thorns trimmed
In a vase of sharks
Gilted lounge most languid rust
Of lust and love.

She was
A ruinous red wine
Rose.
A ruby bosomed
Rapunzel of course
Ensconced
In ivory towers
Fringed in by
cut glass crystal
phalanges of fate.

And
Her bleeding wounds
As the sun set
Everyday
Set her aflame.

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