The silver net

Chapter 7: IN THE HEART OF A ROSE

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A sequence of lyrical meditations that shifts between dreamlike visions, confessional solitude, and mythic or biblical reverie. Recurring images of sea and shipwreck, roses and gardens, and masked or legendary figures are used to probe longing, shame, desire, and the hope for spiritual renewal. Poems alternate between dramatic monologue, fable-like sketches, and brief nocturnes, exploring the tensions between illusion and revelation, life and death, and love as both ensnaring and ennobling, producing a compact, contemplative cycle of symbolist-inflected verse.

IN THE HEART OF A ROSE

As I strolled through the close, in the heart of a rose,

I espied of a woman the figure divine,

In a rose, ruby stained, as a chalice with wine.

And the opening rose did her beauty disclose;

Her red lips she upraised to my lips, wove her arms

Round my neck, bound me fast with her spells and her charms.

And this woman I chose from the heart of the rose,

Chose to share all my dreamland of love and of power,

Stole my soul and imprisoned my soul in the flower.