I’ve noted
as I walk and walk some more
there are a good deal of rose bushes
       all around this town
places you’d least expect
hidden away
not tended to or cared for
simply existing
blooming currently
I could tell you, if you asked
where to find the secrets
       pinks and reds, a yellow here and there
out there, on their own or owned but left to grow uninhibited
which intrigues and slightly disappoints me
and at the same time delights me
beautiful and pure, all the while
unnoticed except by the most observant
or those like me who walk and walk some more