Rosewater

 
All day long
it rained
on the roses

it rained
on the roses
all day,

I listened a
moment
to the fresh beauty
passing
in perfumed brilliance
I heard
the rose say,

where
fell
footfalls
of masters
I broke
again open
and the roses
never minded the rain.

All day long
it rained
on the roses

it rained
on the roses
all day.