Beauty of the roses

by XXXrusted silverXXXwas nvr good enough to be goldXXX   Mar 23, 2007


Roses tinged with a disease,
Charred by a plague of disgrace,
Spreading across a thousand souls,
Creeping throughout the human race.
The roses start to wilt,
A young girl looses her life,
As another petal falls,
A man becomes engulfed in strife.
The leaves roll up and brown,
While a baby screams into the night,
The thorns begin to dull,
A poor boy starves-left in fright.
Someone has finally had enough,
As the roses fall to the ground,
A soldier takes his last breath,
Their decay encircles the world around.
No more beauty of the roses,
A world unfit to survive,
Most were spent in the grave,
And we're lucky we're still alive.

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  • 17 years ago

    by xTheEcstasyOfSuicidex

    A poor boy starves-left in fright.
    [[This should be a double dash. Just grammatical pickyness.]]

    Wow. Oh. My. God.
    I thought you were one of those cliche writers and I was going to have to comment on five horrible poems, but your last three are outstanding. They have such meaning and such beauty to them! Wow. Just.. Damn.

    Life and strife are very cliche rhymes...try to get away from that. I know it's hard because life doesn't rhyme with much, but, yeah.

    Anyways. Beautiful. I'm nominating this for the weekly contest. =]

    xTheEcstasyOfSuicidex 5.5 + Nomination

  • 17 years ago

    by HOLLYWOODxBANGBANG

    I loved the title of this one, it made me want to read it that much more. The poem wasn't what I had expected but I loved it. it spoke truth about the crumbling society we see each and every day, but one thing,... looses = loses. That was the one mistake I caught on to. Other than that, GREAT poem.

    Definate 5/5 (:

  • 17 years ago

    by Italian Stallion

    Great write, from a wonderfully well rounded poet. I loved it and the way you had the rhyme scheme. Great work.

    Peace, Joe

  • 17 years ago

    by Karl Wild GG23

    I agree that this world is a horrible place and is only getting worse by day. It sometimes makes me wonder - whats the point of living anymore?? amazing job 5/5

  • 17 years ago

    by Leanne

    I don't know why this poem wasdownvoted, i really liked it. Again the imagery was good the rhyme scheme threw me off a little but it worked really well. Another great write :)
    5/5

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