A Martime's View

LOVE IS A ROSE - Title of song by Nana Mouskouri, on an old 8 track cassette, plays regularly when I relax. My old 1950 MORSE Electrophonic player with its light-flashing speakerpanel front, does justice to this ancient music. That cassette has been playing for 10 years here, and maybe 40 years before and often after an hours of continual loop playing; I wonder what I will do when the BOT (Beginning of Tape) sensor abandons the tape.

As a young women, or beautiful lady, have you recieved flowers admiringly. What color, with or w/o thorns, what mix and with what accessories flowers.

I just send a dozen which were all red except for 2 white and with babybuttons (small white flowers (Baby's Breath - Everlasting Love) The meaning intended is " in the sea of True love are two pure souls (the babybuttons are stars) As the flowers bloom and our love grows we will stand strong and be seen be all to last forever". (the white roses (us) stand out of the bouquet)

Each flower has its meaning and where Love is concern the Rose is considered the story of Love. Sweetheart roses is suppose to be for the beginning love (Growers site says "Beauty and Youth, A Heart Innocent of Love" ; while the larger types of Roses are for the love from years of development. (I Love You, Perfect Happiness, Always, Love at First Sight, Joy and Gladness, Please Believe Me, Love and Desire, Friendship, Unity and Warmth of Heart)

In our invisible world we never know the real raison for such a gift, but if you had been raised where a lot of the household revenue came from the Greenhouse with flowers for spring planting and the Florists; you would have learned about roses. And beside.. even not knowing the meaning they make the heart smile.

The Rose is the perfect flower of love because arrives with it pedals closed tight. Remainding us how we are so careful of our feelings or expressing our new love. We hide away real emotion and tender expression, like the rose draw those pedals tight. From these tight protected and pointed self we discover our hidden self, and our love begans to open to expression. Like the rose with it round distribution of rose pedals, our love touches every side of our relationship. Slowly over days, (years for our love) this beautiful thing (rose or Love) opens toward it maximun beautiful. How lovely it is to know this and watch the rose open over days.

Flowers, have such a short life cycle compared to us. But they are born, bloom, show their maximun beautiful and whitter and die. Does our love likewise eventually whitter and die ?

Yes, the newness and the continual excitement of joy does; but it is up to each individual if their love lives for ever or whitter. Like care to the bouquet of roses, the love which one developes must also be cultured. Watered with sprinkles of kindness and tenderness, The Stems have to be cut every four or 5 days to let them collect water; and so also we must cut our stems of love. How..Have you make sacrifices for your love. Cut away the excess spending or self to prove how much you appreciate and love. The water of love is these sacrifices and often we need to cut

deep into our selfishness.

Of course you never let the rose completely die as a Bouquet of withered flowers means "Rejected love". The bouquet should be dried at the 5 or 6th day when it begans to lower it pedals. Hung upside down (stems well tired) and the perserve with something like HairSpray)

Of course if they die immediately it suggest that the love is dying too.. (a little care will prevent that)

And Roses are perfect pain givers when a thorn finds it way into your hand. Of course no man would want his love to receive the roses and prick her self on the thorns. Therefore, sometime, a florist will see the man slowly remove all the thorns from the roses. Yes, It does happen. I have often done this. Unless it is the first time you give the roses. (Then the roses are the beauty of the love and the thorns are the warning to becareful.. "Love can be painful".)

Of course the colors are also important for the meaning of the rose too... An invisible world... I hope this has made it more visible..

Rose (general)(Red) - Love ; I love you
Rose( white) - Eternal Love ; innocence; heavenly; secrecy and silence
Rose(pink) - Perfect happiness; please believe me
Rose(Yellow) - Friendship ; jealousy; try to care
Rose(Black) -Death
Rose(red and white) - Together; unity
Rose(thornless) - Love at first sight
Rose( single, full bloom) - I love you; I still love you
Rose bud - Beauty and youth ; a heart innocent of love
Rose bud(red) - Pure and lovely
Rose bud(white) - Girlhood
Rosebud (moss) - Confessions of love
Roses(Bouquet of full bloom) - Gratitude
Roses( Garland or crown of) - Beware of virtue; reward of merit; crown ; symbol of superior merit
Roses ( musk cluster) - Charming
Rose(tea) - I'll always remember
Rose(cabbage) - Ambassador of love
Rose(Christmas) - Tranquilize my anxiety; anxiety
Rose(damask) - Brilliant complexion
Rose(dark crimson) - Mourning
Rose(hibiscus) - Delicate beauty