For dVerse poetics Tuesday. Merril, our host, has given us a list of rose names to use in our poem of any form.
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What We Call Them
They gave them names as if that could hold them—
Peace
for something that never stayed long enough
to settle in the bones.
Ebb Tide
for the way love pulls back without warning,
leaving salt where warmth once lived.
Queen of Hearts
for the illusion of control,
for crowns that slip when no one is looking.
No Surrender
for the part of me
that kept standing
even when the ground did not agree.
And somewhere,
quietly,
almost forgotten—
Desdemona
blooming anyway,
not for tragedy,
but for the softness
that refused to harden.
What’s in a name?
Only this—
we try to make sense
of what we cannot keep,
by calling it something beautiful.
© Maggie – The Afterlove Voice 🌹
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© Maggie – The Afterlove Voice ⚖️♾️🦉
With love
— Maggie
The Afterlove Voice 💫
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