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Poem Details
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| Title: | To Rose |
| Author: | Ngoc Nguyen |
| Date Submitted: | 10/9/2018 |
| Poem: |
What are you to me may I ask; and may I answer you so well? You were at first a secret masque of balls whose guests I cannot tell, a stealthy girl that's light of task whose heart is like a hidden dell. Oh, but now you're a raven-haired with state and rank fit for a queen; a soul who has most often dared to be the friend I've seldom seen, the one to whom I gave and shared my quiet hopes that may have been! You are to me a map and chart to navigate life's hardships thru— the answer to my joyless heart and to a world that I once rue; and e'er more the sublimer part of love and joy that thus ensue.... |