Alluring, inviting - Yet resistant to embrace <br />Sweet intoxicant wafting on gentle breezes <br />What is this fragile one <br />Who beckons yet coyly hides her warriors <br />The queen of noble crimson her majesty shows. <br /> <br /> <br />5/18/2009<br /><br />Claude H Oliver II<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-rose-85/