POEM OF THE DAY: ONCE A ROSE BY GIDEON NWAIKWU

------once a rose- ------

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Pageantry!  thy royal petals now decay..,
Upon this loam once it bloomed.,
Then luscious bees thine nectar strawed.,
But now fleas buzze over thy doom.,

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Glamorous! Your primness passed like a haze.,
Your petals, once charmed the eyes with brilliance. ,
But now a shadow, without a trace.,
Alone, in the wake of your forsaken fans.,

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Rose!  Never did you wear facial vains like a hag.,
You, whose pompous stride sneak through death's whirlpool..,?
You, whose virile petals knew no woe! 
Could fall cheaply to age's entangled web.,
Now sagged the once beauteous petals to the ground.

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see ! thy lovely petals lie currupt..
in woeful odorous tatters in the mud.,
Now priced your spent-elegance, are vile corrupting moths. ,
And your primness be tossed to the worms.

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Once proud like the full-cooing moon.,
Once fresher than the ember dew..
But how soon thy charms discharge,how sadly soon.,?
How sad and soon thy fairness says adieu!
Half-fallen, thy faded  petals drool.,
And in sickening sadness, dying!

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 ----once a rose-----

by G nwaikwu