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Rated: E · Poetry · Other · #984023
A short but sweet poem for Rose Lynn of the Jayhawk bookstore. Velveteen rules.
Yellow Rose of Kansas


The yellow rose of Kansas
blooms a verdant velveteen.
Elegant, she shimmers,
through aisles of books and dreams.

With eloquence she speaks of folk
that dwell in other lands,
where velvet was a well-known coin,
and washing done by hand.

(It kept them humble.)

The yellow rose blooms bright this Spring,
a thornless smile in velveteen.


Kåre Enga

5 april 2005
Catalogue number: [162.32]

Note: for Rose Lynn, of the Jayhawk Bookstore at Kansas University.
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