July, D'you lie? Please don't so we can know you better....

[Mountain Mule]

Originally Posted by monster

c) Sunflowers or roses?

In the interests of answering honestly from the very guts of my heart, i have chosen to answer "C" and only "C."

in the dark sky.
And over one more set of hills,
along the sea,
the last roses have opened their factories of sweetness

and are giving it back to the world.
If I had another life
I would want to spend it all on some
unstinting happiness.

I would be a fox, or a tree
full of waving branches.
I wouldn't mind being a rose
in a field full of roses.

Fear has not yet occurred to them, nor ambition.
Reason they have not yet thought of.
Neither do they ask how long they must be roses, and then what.
Or any other foolish question.


If I weren't already just a humble Mountain Mule, I would be Mary Oliver's rose, spending my life in unstinting happiness.

A sunflower by any other name...