Friday Bliss

Hope your day is filled with happiness and loving friends. I've been looking for a red rose poem that challenges Robert Burns' version. I haven't managed to find one but I quite liked A Perfect Rose by Richard Netherlands Cook.

So deep and pure, the one I chose
From this earthly garden. a perfect rose,
Fragile, yet it only bends,
In times of rain and days of winds.

Close to my heart, this rose I hold,
Its’ beauty to me like solid gold,
A perfect rose that means so much,
That I am thrilled by a single touch.

A perfect rose it has been said,
Is the symbol of love, a long stem red,
No others can or will compete
For my perfect rose so soft and sweet.

My love for the rose, a beauty still,
Has not faded and never will,
This rose I hold, the one I chose,
My loving wife, a perfect rose.