LENTEN ROSES

February 10, 2016 by LW Countryman 1 Comment

Lenten Roses

by Bill Countryman

Our life is lent us by a mystery.

Lent points us now to our mortality.

And Lenten roses in funereal tones

embroider winter’s pall as it declines

toward spring.

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Alene says

February 13, 2016 at 8:47 am

Love this. Thanks for the reminder that death itself is dying.

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