her beauty flourished watching her grow <br />but time has taken it’s toll <br />dead silence grows for the bleeding rose <br />yet a piece of her is left in my soul <br /> <br />a symbol of love that I should know <br />bleeding rose is just a blur <br />for the bleeding rose, dead silence grows <br />left in my soul is a piece of her <br /> <br />symbol of love where petals aglow <br />so time has passed as a blink <br />dead silence grows for the bleeding rose <br />gone is the rose as it makes me think <br /> <br />the sight of the rose breeds thoughts of you <br />knowing your soul is now dead <br />for the bleeding rose, dead silence grows <br />now you're gone as the rose was once red <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Author notes: <br /> <br />ZaniLa Rhyme <br />The ZaniLa Rhyme, a form created by Laura Lamarca, consists 4 lines per stanza. The rhyme scheme for this form is abcb and a syllable count of 9/7/9/9 per stanza. Line 3 contains internal rhyme and is repeated in each odd numbered stanza. Even stanzas contain the same line but swapped. The ZaniLa Rhyme has a minimum of 3 stanzas and no maximum poem length.<br /><br />Amera Andersen<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/bleeding-rose/
