FSF Challenge - Flowers

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This week's writing challenge from Five Sentence Fiction ( Lillie McFerrin Writes ) is based upon the prompt: Flowers

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Before we proceed to my entries for flowers, I'd like to mention (shameless plug time) that I have had another short story accepted. A blog post about it and other submissions is here. I hope someday to actually see the stories that have been accepted in print. Acceptance is good; printing is better.

Now, back to our regularly scheduled stories...

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I haven't done a poem for a while, so I thought I'd give one a try.

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The Last Roses

I lay them down before you;
An offering you neither accept
Nor refuse.

Your eyes cannot see
The colors they show,
Your mind indifferent to their splendor.

They offer their fragrance to the air
That, although sweetly graced by their presence,
Drifts away unnoticed.

Your hands,
No longer troubled by the painful thorns,
Cannot enjoy the silken petals.

And yet I lay them down,
These useless tokens,
Because they are all I have.


                         K. R. Smith

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And as a bonus feature...

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The First Date

     "You're staring at me again! Stop it!"
     "Sorry," he replied, looking away uncomfortably.
     It was their first date, and the day had gone so terribly wrong that whatever he said came out as awkward or backward or worse to the point where he said little at all. How could he possibly explain the way she made the flowers in her hair look so beautiful instead of the other way around?

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Image "Flowers On The Cross" by topstep07 / FreeDigitalPhotos.net

Image "Blond Girl On The Camomile Field" by -Marcus- / FreeDigitalPhotos.net

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