Roses Without Thorns To Greet The Dawn comic poem number 426 by Angela Lansbury

Orange rose. Garden. Hatch End. UK. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

 \You can write a poem

About roses, or thorns

You can write a poem

About the trash or dawn

I could write a poem

I really think I should

It has more chance of lasting

If I write about what's good

So I'll write about the roses

Which greet me in the morn

To make me pleased picking posies

They raise their heads at dawn

I need to have two good thoughts

For each bad one every hour

I 've solved the whole world's problems

Just think of a pretty flower.

I should be like the roses

Not thinking about doom

You can fill the place with gloom

Or spread your perfume through the room.

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Line 11 To make sure I'm happy is funnerie because it projects a purpose onto the flowers, gives myself centre of the world importance, which is absurd, yet reflects the problem with self-centred depression, but posies rhyes with roses

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