Noveyre

Furtive Flowers

Dawn love and dusk lust 

what mornings give to evenings make, 

that roses reside on the river\'s bank. 

 

Away from reach, too far to grasp- 

eluding those from water\'s edge 

and lovelier by lunar touch; 

and rosier by summer sun. 

 

The romanticist, by botany, 

would quest for it for lover\'s glee 

should find himself soon in defeat 

the charming rose, tricky to reap 

 

So those flowers breathe their air

as something none dare ensnare- 

what morning gave to give them growth 

is a secret only the roses know.