{"id":112413,"date":"2025-07-09T14:24:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T21:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/?p=112413"},"modified":"2025-07-09T14:24:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T21:24:19","slug":"ode-to-thee-beloved-red-rose-a-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/archives\/112413-ode-to-thee-beloved-red-rose-a-poem","title":{"rendered":"Ode to Thee, Beloved Red Rose: A Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marjorie Eaton shares this poem with us, and includes this info:<\/p>\n

“Outside the entrance door was an old rose bush with a giant stem growing high. The one lone red rose bloomed 3 weeks straight ’till a wind storm finally ended it.\u00a0 I wrote this poem to honor it.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Ode to Thee, Beloved Red Rose<\/strong><\/p>\n

Glorious red rose that shed thy light
\nBlessed by the thy scent and beauty bright.
\nThee grew and grew beyond thy thorns,
\nThen shed the dreams to blossom at morn.<\/p>\n

Glorious red rose that dwelt three weeks
\nAnd graced mine garden at its peak.
\nIt wasn’t your body that stunned us so;
\nBut thy loving grace that moves me now.<\/p>\n

No different then all else in the rose bed,
\nIt was thee that took courage to lift thy head.
\nAnd all you revealed is eternal light giving sun
\nAnd all music from heaven now has begun.<\/p>\n

A mere three weeks the garden you blessed
\ninstead of three days like all the rest.
\nAnd so it becomes very clear to me,
\nNot to lose sight what was given by thee.<\/p>\n

It is so, that all roses through rooted in earth,
\nGrow upward to heaven, in light’s birth.
\nAll are honored to hear wind chimes and bees,
\nAll are blessed by gurgling water at their feet.<\/p>\n

All flowers blessed in the blowing wind’s song
\nAll dwell in God’s heart, ‘ere the day long.
\nEvery flower chosen, nurtured and loved by the Creator
\nEach blossom special in the heart of its maker.<\/p>\n

No two alike, yet each is the only begotten one
\nAnd beloved red rose your physical life’s done.
\nThe miracle of your 21 days of earth life,
\nOvershadowed by truth; in God, all are the Light.<\/p>\n

A garden bouquet, blossomed on nature Mother’s part,
\nThis brotherhood on Earth from Father God’s heart.<\/p>\n

Marjorie Eaton<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

PS from Marjorie:\u00a0 “I took a picture of the giant red rose, by the way. It was called an Abraham Lincoln red rose, and I sent it with the poem to J-R.\u00a0 \u00a0He let me know that he kept the picture.”<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Marjorie Eaton shares this poem with us, and includes this info: “Outside the entrance door was an old rose bush with a giant stem growing high. The one lone red rose bloomed 3 weeks straight ’till a wind storm finally ended it.\u00a0 I wrote this poem to honor it.” Ode to Thee, Beloved Red Rose […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":112414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[266],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}