Rosebud
I rise a little angry heart in the field
the rose that you used to seek all summer
I am a flower here green for a day
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 23 April 1669.
Dave Bonta
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I rise a little angry heart in the field
the rose that you used to seek all summer
I am a flower here green for a day
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 23 April 1669.
In just a few lines, a rosebud speaks for itself. It rises in a field, calling itself "a little angry heart," and says it is the rose that someone once sought all summer.
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