the story goes rose

[cacian]

a rose
a beautiful pose
in red it looks
prose
dressed in yellow
it is apparently
flows
to bees and seas
it is the scent
of please
the perfect tease
and in purple
it is pure
it simply dures
any moment of the mure
flowers grow
to its cure.
all around
nature to it
lures
the seasons have it
asssured
desire without it
nules.

[PeterL]

Red attracts or repels
On a woman's lips it attracts
It shows; it lures; it chants spells.
In other uses it detracts.
To men it is an attractor
They move1 on cue like an actor
Older than humans, like flies to honey
Stronger than the lure of money
Like a hungry man to jellyroll
There is desire according to rule.