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dying beauty

January 18, 2011
By Wolfie16 SILVER, Skokie, Illinois
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what is it
but a bunch of dying flowers?
brown
dry
crumbling at the slightest touch
with not the delicate beauty
of their summer cousins
but with a rough fragility
reminding us that beauty comes
not only with soft petal
and sweet scent
but also in the dying breath
of a flower

© Joseph S., San Anselmo, CA

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