> Silver shards
> Broken dreams
> Glitter on the
> Horizon
> Left behind
> Their siren's song
> Calling still.
> In my rose garden
> Besieged by colors
> Heady musk
> The fear of thorns
> Has yet to fade
> Hands remain still
> Waiting for the rose
> Perfect enough to risk
> The pain.

To me, this reads like two poems -- the first ending with "Calling still" and the second beginning with "In my rose garden". Each section evokes a different feeling for me, and I have a little trouble making sense of them together. That's not to say that they *don't* make sense together; only that I find it hard not to read them separately.

An unrelated observation: Personal associations with particular phrases can really get in the way of enjoying a poem on its own merits, I guess. I can't read the words "siren's song" in that poem without thinking of "Siren Song", by Jason Harrod, one of my favorite musical artists. Then again, at other times I don't think of it as "getting in the way" of the poem so much as gaining an extra layer of personal meaning from the poem, unintended by the author. I like to know what an author "meant" by such and such a choice of words, but failing that, finding that a phrase has a significance peculiar to oneself is also a real pleasure.

Iss "Like a fool I've missed the voices tickling my ear / The siren song sounds so sweet and clear ... I'm out of here" achar