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About This Author
My name is Joy, and I love to write.
Why poetry, here? Because poetry uplifts its writer, and if she is lucky enough, her readers, too. Around us, so many objects abound to write about. Once a poet starts with a smallest, most trivial object, he shall discover that his pen will spill out what is most delicate or most majestic hidden inside him. Since the classics sometimes dealt with lofty subjects with a lofty language, a person with poetry in his soul may incline to emulate that. That is understandable. Poetry does that to a person: it enlarges the soul and gives it wings. Yet, to really soar, a poet needs to take off from the ground.
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Daily Cascade #1105442 added January 8, 2026 at 11:32am Restrictions: None
Love planted a rose...
Prompt:
"Love planted a rose and the world turned sweet."
Write about what you think this means.
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I had to check who said this quote, "Love planted a rose and the world turned sweet." I found out that it is the same person who wrote, "O beautiful for spacious skies for amber waves of grain..." It was Katharine Lee Bates, to be exact. As such, love planted USA and the world turned sweet. I am not too sure if lately that sweetness is wavering or not, though. But then, most roses need extra care.
What I love most about this quote is its intentionality. Here, love is not accidental. It plants. A rose must be nurtured before it blooms. For it to bloom, it takes effort, patience, and care. Which reminded me of my own rose garden of more than 40 years ago, in which I had over 50 different kinds of roses and I played with them, raising them, grafting and such. So, yes, roses do turn the world sweet.
Yet, world's sweetness does not come from the rose itself, alone. It comes from what it represents. When love is present, ordinary moments become warm and special, and wounds and bitterness do not hurt as much. The same world, with its thorns and storms, still exists, but love changes how we experience it.
In my present home, I have two rose bushes. One in front of the house in a raised flowerbed and the other in a large pot inside the porch area. This has shown me that even one or two planted roses are enough for happiness. In the same vein, one sincere act, one connection or one moment of compassion can change sadness to sweetness, even in difficult soil.
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