Drawing goodness from the same earth <br />he wrapped his thoughts tightly round <br />the stem of her life force. <br />Two distinct entities <br />becoming one ornament <br />In the garden of life <br />for the enjoyment of onlookers. <br />With purists reaching for their knives <br />to hack the ivy from <br />the tender blossomed rose <br />which did not want to lose <br />Its new envelope of ivy’d clothes. <br />But does her longing for entwining <br />foretell the early dying <br />of her finest blossomed rose? <br />And even if cut down <br />their roots are still entwining <br />secret and unseen below the ground!<br /><br />David Taylor<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/roses-and-ivy/
