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