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Poetry Sundays - A Yellow Rose

Poetry Sundays - A Yellow Rose

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Jul 31, 2021
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A Yellow Rose

Imagine your kidney--
a yellow rose

Each day you water it
and you tell it to grow

Then as you care for it
and tend it

One day it will grow strong

It will clean your blood
like a plant cleans your air

Grow, yellow rose, grow

By Cyn Bagley (c) 2003

Published in "A Flicker of Hope: poems by a Wegener's Granulomatosis Survivo…

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