Wild Rose …

Gold cherry

By Rhiannonw

Thu, 03 Dec 2020
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pink blush of beauty
climbing the hedges
with clinging hook-thorns,
delicately decorating
field and roadside edges.

Garden roses various
rich, exuberant –
but I like the wild blush roses
fragile, fleetingly abundant.

 

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Submitted by skinner_jennifer on

Lovely poem Rhiannon,

it reminds me that beauty can come from the wildness of untamed flowers too.

Thank you for sharing.

Jenny.

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thanks, Jenny.

The garden roses have been bred from the wild roses I expect, to make stronger, bigger, longer lastng flowers, but the delicacy of the 'original' has something very special to me!. Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thank you for the cherries for this lovely little flower! Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Insertponceyfre... on

Roses have a fascinating history - I love the wild dog roses too- I agree with you Rhiannon. thank you for this wonderful piece!

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thanks, Insert. They have always given me so much pleasure. It was enjoyable trying to communicate that! Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Nolan on

There is a beautiful wild flower here Rhiannon I think they are called cosmos. It grows at side of roads for miles also coloured like that but it is regarded as a weed. Wonder if they are related?

There is another rose the desert rose. What is the rose of sharon?

See you! &&

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

We have a garden flower called cosmos, and I wrote about it here:

https://www.abctales.com/story/rhiannonw/cosmos

It is not really like the wild roses that grow in our hedges as I've written about in this piece. I think in South Africa and elsewhere there is a kind of wild cosmos on your roadsides. I think the leaves are very different. Rhiannon

 

Submitted by hilary west on

Hi Rhiannon,

Wild roses are beautiful, aren't they. There are some near me climbing over an old garage and the smell is wonderful in the summer, a special thing! Your poem was a little gem.

Hilary    yes

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thank you,they are a free delight! Rhiannon

 

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Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thank you! So glad you and others enjoyed this. Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

roses are my favourite flower and you have caught them perfectly, Rhiannon, both wild "delicately decorating" and "richly exuberant" ones bred for gardens. I am sure the old variety ones which survive in my garden have  personalities. I do love dog roses, and it was seeing a HUGE  field rose full of bees that made me want to grow them in the first place, though I am very glad of garden roses which flower for a  long time too- there is one called Compassion by our front door which cheered me up today as it has a flower out even though there is frost everywhere and all other flowers have given up. It's much too late for bees, so not at all sensible of it, but very kind :0)

Nolan, Rose of Sharon are Hypericums, which are small shrubs with beautiful bright yellow petals and a huge burst of stamens. They are like little summer suns on stalks so seeing them is cheering, but also, a variety of hypericum is called st john's wort which is a herbal medicine some people use for depression that comes in winter frrom lack of sunlight        

Thankyou again for your poem Rhiannon, it is lovely            

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

thank you, Di. You have a fund of knowledge of the roses and other flowers, garden and otherwise. My mother knew here wild flowers well, though not so much the garden ones, though still enjoying them. It is lovely that there are often a few flowers around in the winter time, in sheltered spots. Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Nolan on

Very interesting thanks Di! In the Song of Solomon the beloved is a "lily of the valleys" and a "rose of sharon". I've always wondered about that. The desert rose is a fleshy green succulent that looks just like a rose it grows in arid regions. Doesn't need too much water. I've got four big ones here the leaves look exactly like rose petals. Just fat green ones. It can have little ones just like "hen and chickens" I've also had some.

Good, thanks! Nolan &

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

Ah, apologies, Nolan! I think the rose of Sharon might mean another flower in the Song of Solomon?

Just looked up Wikipedia and read that it might have been a way of translating something which could have also been "flower of the field" which sounds to me exactly like how Rhiannon desrcibes wild roses :0)

 

Submitted by luigi_pagano on

Congratulations on Pick of the Day, Rhiannon. This poem of yours as charming as the flower it describes reveals your deep knowledge and love of nature.

Kind regards and best wishes for the festive season.

Luigi x

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thanks, Luigi.Not sure how deep my knowledge is, but with the delight in it, always glad to research a bit more.

I hope you and your family have a blessed Christmas even as we are all enforced to be more isolated. Rhiannon