Charles Bukowski

Finish

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Missed Timeliness and Regret

The poem uses a single, crisp image—unbloomed roses—to explore missed timing, squandered potential, and the quiet consequence of inaction. The speaker likens people to flowers that failed to open when opportunity or readiness arrived, leaving the life-giving sun impatient or indifferent. The tone is resigned and regretful, suggesting a sense of wasted possibility and the small, irreversible losses that follow delayed or avoided choices.

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We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting.

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