He plucked the flower for himself,
And he was so happy to have it,
But then it started dying,
Day by day, petal by petal
He watched it turn to dust with an aching heart.
The more he tightened his fist,
The faster it started to die,
And if he opened his fist,
It still kept dying, only slowly,
There was nothing he could do to save it.
No sprinkle of water was going to,
Keep it alive for long.
The dear wildflower he finally found
After days of wandering in the forest
Was dying in his hands and all he could do was watch,
Watch and wonder, was it worth it?
All flowers die sooner or later,
Was wandering in search of it,
Fingers he punctured struggling with the thorns,
Those days he spent lost and cold it the forest,
Was it worth it?!
-N
Daily Prompt – Puncture
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Poetry © Copyright 2017, Opinionated Head
June 15, 2017 at 1:18 am
Nice words and a beautiful question? I would say, time doesn’t matter, but our happiness inside!
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June 15, 2017 at 4:43 am
I guess that makes sense. Thank you for sharing this uplifting thought.
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June 15, 2017 at 4:44 am
No problem at all!
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June 15, 2017 at 2:34 am
I love this. ❤ I have a thing for dark imagery. I enjoy using the flower myself in my poetry. 🙂
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June 15, 2017 at 4:45 am
I am glad you liked it, I am looking forward to exploring your blog now. 🙂
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June 16, 2017 at 4:12 am
It’s good to spend some time enjoying blogs – reading and writing! and making friends!
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June 16, 2017 at 4:13 am
It definitely is. 🙂
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June 15, 2017 at 3:48 am
Beautiful!
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June 15, 2017 at 4:45 am
Thank you!!
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June 15, 2017 at 8:53 am
Dude, perfection is this. :’)
Loved it.
As I’ve already told you, I suck at understanding poems but when I read a good one I get this feeling. A very weird one.
For some reason, even though you might not mean it this way, I think the flower seems to be playing the role of revenge. The person did so many things, struggled, and then he finally took his revenge. But the revenge didn’t make him feel any better, it never does. So he started to wonder if all this was worth it.
What do you think about my interpretation? 😛
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June 15, 2017 at 2:56 pm
haha…thank you! 🙂
I left the poems direction a little wide and open so people could interpret it in there own way. I love your interpretation, a very fresh and fitting angle to it. Thank You ket!!!
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June 15, 2017 at 7:50 pm
The analogy you use in this amazing poem makes so much sense about life and time that flits in front of your eyes. An art form of creativity.
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June 16, 2017 at 3:48 am
Thank you for your kind words vishal. 🙂
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June 16, 2017 at 4:01 am
Nice one
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June 16, 2017 at 4:03 am
Thank you!
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June 16, 2017 at 7:08 am
Lovely!
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June 16, 2017 at 11:36 am
Thank you.
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June 17, 2017 at 2:51 am
🙂
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June 16, 2017 at 11:14 am
Not worth picking flowers or breaking others hearts isn’t it. Thank you for your words. Did I get the correct meaning ?
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June 16, 2017 at 11:38 am
Every meaning is the correct meaning, although It means something else too me but I meant the poem to be open to different interpretation.
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June 18, 2017 at 10:52 am
Beautiful 💛
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June 18, 2017 at 12:06 pm
Thank you! 🙂
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June 22, 2017 at 1:56 am
Incredibly beautiful writing xo
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June 29, 2017 at 6:47 pm
Thank you!
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July 1, 2017 at 8:09 am
Amazing!
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July 2, 2017 at 4:18 am
Thank you!
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September 30, 2017 at 6:54 pm
Thank you for your encouragment! 🙂
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September 30, 2017 at 6:55 pm
Of course, I would like that. On the home page of my blog at the bottom right you will find my twitter link. 🙂
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