Roses and Noses ©
Hamish M Anstruther
Scotland
2004
Who supposes
that roses and noses
go together well?
The sweetest of posies
suffuse our noses
with many a pungent smell.
But only the nosey
would stick their nose
in any wild rose's pistils.
For beetles and fleas
and wasps and bees
have a habit of crawling up nostrils!
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