The sweetest of the Golden Girls
Could fling the sharpest barb
St. Olaf was inspiring
And Beauty coyly chased her Beast
To spare a dying rose
Each petal falling
Every Bachelor seems to have
A limitless supply
But in the end
More thorns than blooms
Have found their mark
It is the loveliness
That draws us to the rose
And recklessness
That greets our touch
And draws our blood
Life and love
Are good and sweet
Yet intimacy may bring
A stab of pain
This poem was written in response to Go Dog Go Cafe’s Tuesday Writing Prompt –
Tuesday Writing Prompt Challenge–May 12, 2020
~ Trivial Music Silliness ~ 
Well done!
By: purplepeninportland on May 14, 2020
at 12:07 am
Thank you, triple-P!
By: boromax on May 14, 2020
at 8:05 pm
the last half of this really works for me; it is brilliant but do we need ‘hurtful’? isn’t it superfluous?
By: johnlmalone on May 15, 2020
at 1:01 am
You are right! ‘Hurtful’ is superfluous/redundant. Pain = hurtful. And simply ‘a stab of pain’ is more powerful. Making the edit.
By: boromax on May 18, 2020
at 4:39 pm
So good!! What a contrast, too!
Resonates!!
Thank you, Boromax!
P and B!
By: peachandbatman on May 17, 2020
at 3:49 pm
Thank you, P&B!
By: boromax on May 18, 2020
at 4:40 pm
Love it. So true. Love is a many-sided wonder to obtain or be obtained by.
On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 3:06 PM ~ Trivial Music Silliness ~ wrote:
> boromax posted: “The sweetest of the Golden Girls Could fling the sharpest > barb St. Olaf was inspiring And Beauty coyly chased her Beast To spare a > dying rose Each petal falling Every Bachelor seems to have A limitless > supply But in the end More thorns than bloom” >
By: gpavants on May 22, 2020
at 2:10 am
Yes, indeed. Thank you, GP!
By: boromax on May 22, 2020
at 2:20 pm
I really like this piece, Ed.
By: mitchteemley on June 4, 2020
at 9:33 pm
Thank you, Mitch!
By: boromax on June 4, 2020
at 9:40 pm