A Rose's Birthday Poem by RoseAnn V. Shawiak

Flowering for the fourth of July - on the third,
missing by just one day all the fireworks and
pageantry of Independence Day, but enjoying a
birthday chosen just for her.

A momentous occasion, being delivered on earth,
yet the world didn't celebrate it with fireworks,
firecrackers or loud noises - just the cry of her
birth.

What a cry it was, announcing Rose's arrival on
earth, all of nature was awakened, and the world
acquiesced in honor of her birth.