Tuesday 4 August 2015


SOLAROSA

Into Summer she emerged, into the
Season of roses, her face 
aglow, her newborn fingers seeming
to reach through stone walls
into a bower brimming
with brightness, astir with birdsong, 
dripping gilded perfume upon
the dew-drenched emerald grass.

Solarosa they named her, Rose of the
Sun, for verily the child's
soul appeared to soar to the Day Star
through an air-scape of 
gold, alighting upon the satin petals of 
blooms dipped in noonday
light, caressing their delicate centres 
with her infant breath.

In her eyes sparkled the eternal green
of the Great Cosmic Tree, 
undimmed by the fatigue of the past 
and memories of the future.
It was as though she had touched the
pivot of the heavens, 
knelt before starlit thrones in brilliant
etheric enclosures.

She grew into the noble grace of a seer,
the scrolls of wisdom
inscribed upon her palms, the keys to
the mysteries of life, death
and the vastness in-between upon her 
brow, its gentleness drawn
as that mystical horizon, over which the 
portals to another world hover.

The Rose perceived her sacred destiny,
this guide from the stars,
dispassionately knowing. Her speech
streamed the luminous calm 
of renewing mountain springs. Indeed, 
she bore herself as the
Celestial Mount, at the foot of which 
wanderers share the waters of Life.

The abandoned and forlorn, all who had
cast their lives into nothingness,
retrieved its thread by the beacon of her 
smile. Her own life thread was
wound upon the Spindle Star, they claim.
Nightly she would gaze upon
the blazing Jewel of the North, oft through
masses of clouds, imbibing
his spirit, imploring inspiration and union.

Upon an early June morn, they found her
prone form shrouded in
tawny petals beneath the golden bower
that had augured her birth.
She merged with the rising Sun, it is said, 
this Rose of the skies, for her 
Light was not of Earth. My heart would
believe she glides beside her
beloved Polaris as Keeper of his Scrolls.


© 2015 Lily's Verse
Lilium Candidum

Image: THE FOUR ROSES
Source: commons.wikimedia.org
Artist: Franz Dvorak

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