Her Roses
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And the roses sang,
their song rose, they sang
as the pale couple walked
along a path framed by color
and the wafting fragrance
of ambition. The roses, they
were her roses, and the roses
sang, their song rose as the couple
talked, and wept; she, of loss,
and he of Empires, and both spoke
in hushed tones that conversed
about love littered with thorns.
And when they left the garden
path and returned to Mal Mason,
the petals of the roses were
damp with dew and tears, as
the roses sang, they sang of
Josephine and her Napoleon.
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Jennifer Lemming
Jennifer Lemming ’s blog about living in North Dakota, USA, A Page on the Plains, is archived on the Hudson Valley Writers Guild site. She won Grand Prize in the Dancing Poetry Contest in 2019. Her poems and short fiction have been published in online and print journals. Her latest chapbook, Star Slough, was published by Dark Heart Press, March 2019. In 2023, North Dakota Humanities published her poem, “BisBack Badlands”. She lives in Bismarck, North Dakota where she hands out her extra copies of the Poetry Magazine, usually in tattoo parlors & beauty salons in Mandan and Bismarck North Dakota, respectively.
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