An Unconventional Valentine
Let me contrast you with a rose in bloom
Whose unfurled buds exude a sweet perfume.
Eternal token of romantic zeal
On lease from heaven with a loving seal.
You, in comparison, with beard untrimmed,
Complexion florid and your vision dimmed,
Have no external beauty to extol;
Possession of long life must take its toll.
Not always temperate your moods break through
And like a rose you can be prickly too.
But though a shade of what you used to be,
You're worth your weight in gold to me!
16.08.19
'A summer's day re-do poetry contest sponsored by Michelle Faulkner
(obligatory words used : temperate, buds, lease, possession, heaven, complexion, eternal, gold, untrimmed, shade)
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