A Poem For Today - I Cultivate a White Rose - Cultivo una rosa blanca

[KEN DICKINSON]



I cultivate a white rose
in June and January
for the true friend
who gives me his sincere hand.

And for the cruel one who rips out
the heart with which I live,
I don’t cultivate the thistle or the nettle;
I cultivate the white rose.

Jose Marti

Cultivo una rosa blanca 
en junio como enero
para el amigo sincero 
que me da su mano franca.

Y para el cruel que me arranca 
el corazón con que vivo, 
cardo ni ortiga cultivo; 
cultivo la rosa blanca.

Jose Marti

[Isabel Torres-Carrilho]

Words to live by!

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