Rosebush

Dave BontaContemplative

Great company is the rosebush, hip to fine-dressed hip like a queen, with the strictness of the poor who cannot buy a crown.

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 14 February 1660/61.

Dave Bonta
SourceLicence:CC BY-SA 4.0
Mood:
Contemplative
Topics:
rose, poverty, crown, queen

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