After the Rain

Roses may come to differ,
This, at some times, they do
And unveil a true interest:
The beyonds latest hue.

The dark goblet above
Whiles away with thirsty woods,
As a rose sips the shower
Under sunshine’s full bloom.


Copyright © Teresa Pelka

The world may never have seen her original handwriting, if her skill was taken for supernatural. Feel welcome to Poems by Emily Dickinson prepared for print by Teresa Pelka: thematic stanzas, notes on the Greek and Latin inspiration, the correlative with Webster 1828, and the Aristotelian motif, Things perpetual — these are not in time, but in eternity.
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