Yellow Rose of Kansas

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.