Poetry | Love | Relationships

My Love and a Garland of Roses

My love for you does abound

Karen Brenchley
3 min readJun 28, 2023

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Photo by Dusan Ristic on Unsplash

On the first attempt to make his love a Princess

I sought to win you a garland of roses,
Kiriana, my love.
I fought to win roses so white and so fair,
Roses to wear on your dark silken hair,
While the fiddler played and played on.

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Karen Brenchley

Product manager for machine learning and data science, aikido nidan, published fiction writer, MS survivor