Challenge
Flower Symbolism
Flowers are given as tokens of affection. Each one has a meaning behind them. Choose a flower and illustrate its meaning by writing a poem/free verse story about a person offering a bouquet to someone else.
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these violets
take a gift, friend,
these violets, plucked
from your mother's
backyard
scatter your memories,
purple petals, borrowed
from the fields behind
the train tracks
breathe the air again,
amethyst heirlooms, stolen
from heaven's front
gates
take a gift, friend,
these violets, so that
you may remember
- I am by your side forever -
the backyard,
the train tracks,
the gates
my violet,
I will not leave you behind