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* For my children - Sommer, Brandon and Alyssa - I love you more than life. *

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three flowers ... of extraordinary bloom seeds and earth, spun together in chaos soil of arable value, some more or less ... firm, but challenge not the care of the tenders - their loving ambitions they gardened and provided with nurturing hands far-from-perfect, the aliment entrusted ... not always in accord, but consistently full hearts for the task oh, those blossoms were, as any, pressed by the elements for life is as much the storms, as it is the fair and fine but the roots were strong and reaching what they sprung, hearty and bright and graceful - as imperfectly perfect as childhood dreams now, I stand back and watch them gather light and wings drink rain, bend in the wind, fold their petals in twilight ... seeding new buds and blooms of their own for that is the way of flowers ... their beauty, blessing. Submitted on June 3, 2020 To the "Brian's Select 3, Any Form, Any Theme" Poetry Contest Brian Strand, Sponsor.

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