Roses ~ Author Sandra Lyon Kramer

By Raja's Insight on October 30, 2017 • ( 1 )

A rose by any other name

Can only be called an individual,

Beautified by its imperfections

And perfected by its flaws.

And though this rose

Is shriveled by the heat of impartial attack

And pounded by the pouring rain of defeat

It can only grow

If occasionally overexposed

To the elements.

Are not all

Old and strong bushes

Beautiful

Because they were brave enough

To weather their storms?

Excerpt from the book The Only Words my Soul Knows

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About the Author

Sandra Lyon Kramer is a poet, artist, and political blogger. Her first published work was an essay that appeared in the “My Turn” column of the Los Angeles Daily News in June of 1992. The following year she won The National Author’s Registry President’s Award for Literary Excellence for “Starless” and was recognized by the International Society of Poets as a Poet of Merit.

Sandra is the former owner of two free-press publications, The Anti-Press and the Reality Press, and was a contributor to the Daily News, the Daily Journal, and Antelope Valley Focus Magazine. She now operates Tiny House Productions in the Los Angeles area and is a frequent participant in open mic events at Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural in Sylmar, California.

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