ROSES

“A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom.”

Chinese

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
- Emma Goldman





(sorry! still can't get pics to post!!)

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Dearestestestest Sandy,
how(lll!) to post pics is this: Click the little green picture icon, then it'll ask you for the url, see below. I hope you don't mind I fixed your post here! Love, Teom

Welcome back Sandy.



Nice quote:

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
- Emma Goldman

Thank you.

Love,
yoko

Thanks Yoko!

Isn't that a great quote! It's the truth too! Hope it wasn't posted already. Went through them but didn't see it. Jewelry doesn't thrill me like roses, or any other flower, plant, grass etc! I know there are others here also who feel the same! One day I will figure out how to post the pictures. I know the ones on my computer are too large, just have to take the time to resize some to a bit smaller!
Love to you..and to all!

Thank you yoko and Sandy.

You are right Sandy, a necklace of roses is far superior to one made of stones, or whatever is in fashion.

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As a lovesick nightingale, you flew among the owls.
Then came the scent of the rosegarden
and you flew off to meet the Rose.

Rumi

This rose is in my garden and I thought that I had lost it, but I kept watering it and feeding it and now it has a nice tall branch with a bud. I am so happy, since it is one of my favourite roses, that has been with me for a long time.

Love, Inda
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Dear Sandy, I am also very happy that your beautiful rose is on Givnology.

Hi Inda!
I can see why you worry! It's a beautiful Rose! Is it called "Love and Peace"? I have a this and it looks similar to yours. A bit more pink in this picture, not always so pink!
Have a wonderful day!

Hello Sandy,

Welcome back to Givnology.
It is really nice to see you.

Thank you for the nice quote and the beautiful rose.

How wonderful to have a necklace of roses.
Have a wonderful summer.

Love,
Vicky

Nice to see you Sandy.

I love your roses, and yes, I would rather have a necklace of roses.

Love,
Sue

I love rosews, and I am waiting for the time when they will bloom again.

Love,
Vicky

Roses are back in full bloom. Enjoy their various colours and shades, inhale the fragrance...enjoy..

“You are responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupery quotes

Thank you Inda for the post and for bringing it back.

The rose is a lovely flower, with its variety of colors and exquisite scent.let us immerse ourselves in its beauty.

Love,
yoko

“But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes

A rose is a rose is a rose.
- Quotes Gertrude Stein

I'd rather have roses on my
table than diamonds on my neck.
- Quotes Emma Goldman

That which God said to the rose,
and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty,
He said to my heart,
and made it a hundred times more beautiful.

Rumi

Each Morn a thousand Roses brings, you say:
Yes, but where leaves the Rose of Yesterday?
And this first Summer month that brings the Rose
Shall take Jamshyd and Kaikobád away.

Omar Khayyam

For if I wait," said she, "Till time for roses be,-
For the moss rose and the musk rose,
Maiden-blush and royal-dusk rose,-
"What glory then for me
In such a company?-
Roses plenty, roses plenty
And one nightingale for twenty?"

- Quotes Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The rose is a flower of love.
The world has acclaimed it for
centuries. Pink roses are for love
hopeful and expectant. White roses
are for love dead or forsaken,
but the red roses, ah the red roses
are for love triumphant.

Unknown



Roses red and violets blew,
And all the sweetest flowres
that in the forrest grew.

- Quotes Edmund Spenser

Roses are all in bud, and some are blooming already.
Enjoy these lovely flowers that bring some much beauty to our summer.

Love,
yoko

Nice of you to bring back the roses post.
They are all starting to bloom in my garden,
somewhat late this year due to the cold spring that we had.

...From th moment you came into the manifest world,
a ladder was offered for your escape.
From mineral substance you became a living plant,
and later a roving animal. Is this a secret?
Afterwards, as a human being,
you developed reason, consciousness, faith,
See how the body has risen from the dust like a rose...

Rumi

...The rose flees autumn,
but what a foolhardy rose you are,
seeking the autumn wind...

Rumi

That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.

Rumi

I watched the thin half ring of the waning moon
as it stole through the haze...
an exquisite color like ashes of roses,
till the sun suffuses it with a burning blush,
before he leaps alive from the ocean's rim.

Celia Thaxter, May 1893

“I will soothe you and heal you,
I will bring you roses.
I too have been covered with thorns.”

― Rumi
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Roses are still blooming, and they will do so until the frost.



“Pull the thorn of existence out of the heart! Fast!
For when you do, you will see thousands of rose gardens in yourself.”

― Rumi
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“When the rose is gone and the garden faded
you will no longer hear the nightingale's song.
The Beloved is all; the lover just a veil.
The Beloved is living; the lover a dead thing.
If love withholds its strengthening care,
the lover is left like a bird without care,
the lover is left like a bird without wings.
How will I be awake and aware
if the light of the Beloved is absent?
Love wills that this Word be brought forth.”

― Rumi, Teachings of Rumi

Roses are starting to bloom.

They are one of my favourite flowers, although I love flowers in general.

Roses fortunately last with us a little longer than the beautiful short lasting spring and very early summer flowers.

 

I like to bring roses into my apartment whenever I can.

Thank you for bringing back the roses. I love roses as well, and you are right, they are starting to bloom.

 

Thank you for all these wonderful images.

Roses are one of my favourite flowers as well.

What Was Said to the Rose

What was said to the rose that made it open
was said to me here in my chest.

What was told the Cypress that made it strong
and straight, what was

whispered the jasmine so it is what it is, whatever made
sugarcane sweet, whatever

was said to the inhabitants of the town of Chigil in
Turkestan that makes them

so handsome, whatever lets the pomegranate flower blush
like a human face, that is

being said to me now. I blush. Whatever put eloquence in
language, that's happening here.

The great warehouse doors open; I fill with gratitude,
chewing a piece of sugarcane,

in love with the one to whom every that belongs!

Poem by Jalaluddin Rumi

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Roses are a timeless thing of beauty,

and they are blooming now, and will bloomfor a long time.

 

Roses are all in full bloom.

Many have a beautiful scent.

They are beautiful in the garden, as well as indoors.

Enjoy tghe beautiful roses

Thank you Vicky for bringing back the roses thread.

They really are beautiful.

 

Can you find another market like this? Where, with your one rose, you can buy hundreds of rose gardens? ~Rumi

 

I am enlarging one of your lovely images

I do not know who lives here in my chest, or why the smile comes. I am not myself, more the bare green knob of a rose that lost every leaf and petal to the morning wind

 

. ~Rumi

 

I am enlarging your other lovely image

 

 

Thank you for all the lovely pictures.

Roses are so very beautiful.

Nice to see you back Gisele.

 

 

 

-I said: How long will you drag my soul around the world?

He said: Wherever I drag you, come quickly. Say nothing.

 

I said: While I say nothing, do you want me

to burn? Are you saying: Come in and say nothing?

 

He smiled like a rose and said: Come in and see.

This fire is jasmine, green leaves and roses. Say nothing.

 

The fire became roses and spoke. It told me:

Except for our beloved’s love and kindness, say nothing-

 

Rumi