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Writer's pictureGertrude Kadzuwa

Thorns Wouldn't be My sisters

Updated: May 24, 2021



If I Was A Rose Petal

If I was a rose petal, would I've settled for thorns

as a sister, with her jaggy face and shape beside her, reside

Wouldn't I've called out for a ruler,

two-meter social distance,

radius, apply

before at mama's table, we sit

Would a marriage suitor of a calibre

around her rough pointed corners and spheres, bring

If in thrill I was to sway and twirl

that I too 've found myself not just a mere visitor

but a love chaser

a true gentleman, no dilly dally

in the adornment of my finger with a ring;

would I've danced, before my tender feet

into her stings bump and bleed.


I am not a rose petal neither a thorn

so to winds are my concerns

for these two sisters, their love has won

Sister beauty and sister jaggy, are solid buddies

f rom the same mother

different figures, beside one another

sis rose flower , the thorn is her cheerleader

defender. its her she celebrates

sis thorn, rose flower's

her glamour and beauty tower

its her, she jubilates


Entrepreneurship Poetic Nuggets

If Starting a business or anything was like sprinkling confetti for adding colour to a bridal table, by now, all of us would have become renowned world entrepreneurs. Isn't it?

But boy!, not even James Browns song, Its A Mans's Mans's world .. is a reflective mirror of what it is; a venture into the new non posted path, not for anyone else but that particular start-up person.

But, sometimes, to break into a new arena feels like passing through the rose thorny entanglement with the rose shrubs prickling the visionaries eyes.

Or is it unnecessary ballooning of the challenges expected in the business world, especially for a start-up like me? If this is a too simplistic generalisation, but in my world, sometimes it feels like plucking rose petals with bare soft hands.

To pluck a rose is to bypass the thorns. A true horticulturist will testify to it; despite sticking to 101 lessons of how to pluck rose petals, getting rose flower can still pause unwelcome prickings. Such that thinking one can get rose flowers, without any unpleasant stings, is like taking an oath - I Pumpkin, I solemnly swear, in Ice and snow I will never skid and fall.

Its true that maybe one cant fall, but near falls and skidding are part of the fun; for those who pray, " let it snow, let it snow. Shhh! Why mention that word -snow? We sprung forward; we are now in spring, forward ever backwards never! - Lol.


Back to rose flowers, a horticulturist's grateful for the rose flowers as well as thorns.

Why have they answered prayer?

Without them, herbivory will devour the rose bushes - there will be no rose flowers, period.

Yes, I have encountered a battalion of thorns on my path to starting different projects.

I would have lost it. I would have scattered the thorns and toss them in consuming fire because they ceased being thorns; they metamorphosed into fortified swords.


Thorns are invisible

  • Thorns are never seen, from a distance

  • its the flowers that ooze beauty.

Can the same not be said about preparation to starting a business?.

  • The frustrations,

  • the tears, the sleepless nights are never mentioned

  • When things go wrong, there's no room or platform to tell the world; there is a delay in the launching of the business

  • by this time, the thorns are now horns; they feel like marching oxen horns, intending to crush one's womb of innovation

But looking back, I am grateful for some thorns situation I faced

I am glad that when I spent days and night to bulldoze, what I thought was gigantic boulders on my entrepreneurial way, now I realise some were the breaks by the greatest way maker of our time they were delays but relays to plausible connections, communication, innovation Entrepreneurship Nugget

Just like rose petals and thorns who reside beside one another, complement each other gains and losses in business, if blended, they can become,

innovative ideas for growing the business and forming new connections.




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