Come Drink Long Stem Blood Red Roses Poem by Terence George Craddock

come drink long stem blood red roses
you thirst I slit my veins so that you may drink
my life blood soul pour my soul dark red

red blood upon your Stradivarius violin

fine instrument varnish layer coats
thin fine vanish layer twenty thirty times
rose stem thorns pierce skin release

passion blood drips wind time my days
are roses chocolate wine smell eat drink
passion time blood is giving life to life

within blood given is music my soul

blood is my soul come play my strings
we give our blood lives away dripping pulses
strings stretched twisted tuned flex flames


Copyright © Terence George Craddock