Nine poems to dedicate...

The rose is a rose.

And was always a rose.

But the theory now goes

That the apple's a rose,

And the pear is, and so's

The plum, I suppose.

The dear only knows

What will next prove a rose.

You, of course, are a rose.

But were always a rose

                                                    Robert Frost

                                                    da " La famiglia della rosa"