Purple Clematis

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A Poem by Rosa Gilbert

O to be like this purple clematis, 

inching, growing, climbing up the garden trellis,

Skyward, upward, toward the beaming summer sun,

Violet petals reaching for heaven and all its life, 

to burst open closest, nearest to the beaming light 

Under a cloud of witnesses, she wishes to bloom— 

O purple clematis, I pray, teach me to be like you.

Rosa Gilbert is a publishing assistant at Calla Press Publishing LLC. Born and raised in the Dominican Republic, Spanish is her first language, but it was through learning English that she fell in love with words. Her work has been published at Ekstasis, Clayjar Review, The Way Back to Ourselves, Vessels of Light, Prosetrics Literary Magazine, among others. She lives in Ohio with her husband and daughter. You can find her writing at: https://rosagilbert.substack.com/ and @rosagilbertpoetry.