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Tulip bulbs planted at Government House in memory of Dutch liberation - Canadian Tulip Festival

in my city of Canada ... the snowdrop flower ... welcomes Spring growing through the melting snow the flower contour is a snowdrop even a single is impressive snowdrops are a symbol used in poetry ~ soon garden nurseries are selling pansies in a wild rainbow of saturations that can survive our still cold nights ~ and then come the petunias that cheerful garden favorite for window boxes in a multitude of hues and configurations I love the type that grow like a wave for my hanging baskets ... ~ some of the names for petunia varieties so poetically named are ... dream, magic cascade, horizon, fantasy, and more ~ but, my absolute favorite Spring flower is the tulip ... a jewel-like beauty that only blooms for 3 to 7 days to create sweeping beds breathtaking ... in every tint and intensity imaginable and guise the spiritual meaning of a tulip is love, reflection, forgiveness and 'new beginnings' ... ~ a bit of history- in 1945 Canada sheltered the future Dutch Queen Julianna during WW2 Nazi occupation and in thanks the Dutch sent thousands of tulip bulbs ... and still do ~ a single perfection, a ruffled, a striped... each beautiful _________________ May 7, 2021 Poetry/Free Verse/beautiful Spring flowers Copyright Protected, ID 05-1353-335-07 All Rights Reserved, 2021, Constance La France Written for the Standard contest, The Most Beautiful Flowers You've Seen Blossoming This Spring So Far sponsor, M.L. Kiser, Judged 05/27/2021 First Place

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Sara Kendrick

Date: 5/31/2021 9:40:00 AM

Congrats on this winner. I enjoyed the information presented as well. It is wonderful that your country saved the life of the Queen of Holland and that the country honors your country by sending the bulbs. I do like tulips but I have lost all of mine. I need to get some more but Alas! I am really not able to do that work anymore. Sara

Constance La France
Date: 6/1/2021 8:54:00 PM

Sara, thanks for the congrats and comment, if you lived in my city in Canada, after the 2 week Tulip festival, they give the tulip bulbs away to the public, love Constance

Robert Lindley

Date: 5/29/2021 4:59:00 PM

A very fine poem, congratulations on your win my friend. God bless....

Constance La France
Date: 5/30/2021 12:27:00 PM

Robert, thank you for the compliment and congratulations, appreciate a lot, peace _Constance

Subimal Sinha-Roy

Date: 5/28/2021 9:03:00 PM

Great tribute to the tulip. Congrats on your win.

Constance La France
Date: 5/29/2021 8:45:00 AM

Subimal, thank you for the comment and congrats, love _Constance

Gary Radice

Date: 5/28/2021 12:51:00 PM

Snowdrops hail Spring where I live in the UK. I love to see them. I never knew that about tulips either. You've adopted an interesting style for this free verse Constance - weaving history, description with a narrative. You've intrigued me and set me up well for this weeks episode of Gardeners' World that's just about to begin on BBC. Congratulations on your win. Cheers - Gary

Constance La France
Date: 5/28/2021 3:40:00 PM

Gary, thank you for the congratulations and the compliment on my poem and style, and the great comment, my mother was a avid gardener and taught me quite a bit about flowers through helping her, we just finished the 2 week Tulip Festival here in my city in Canada, peace _Constance

L Milton Hankins

Date: 5/28/2021 11:54:00 AM

Congratulations, Constance, for your fine showing of tulips!

Constance La France
Date: 5/28/2021 3:40:00 PM

Milt, thank you for the congratulations and comment, peace _Constance

Christuraj Alex

Date: 5/28/2021 11:42:00 AM

Very Charming! Congratulations!

Constance La France
Date: 5/28/2021 3:41:00 PM

Christuraj, thank you for the compliment and congratulations, peace _Constance

Anne-Lise Andresen

Date: 5/9/2021 9:42:00 AM

- A beautiful poem, Constanse :) - My father's pride ... his beloved tulips :) - I had to find tulips for his funeral .... he died in early January and at that time of year they are hard to get ... but I managed to get them :) - Luck in the contest :) - hugs // Anne-Lise :)

Constance La France
Date: 5/9/2021 9:47:00 AM

Anne-Lise, thank you for the compliment and comment, and encouragement. Tulips are often used in funeral arrangements I have noticed. Happy you were able to get some for your fathers funeral, my father loved the yellow ones, I was not able to get them in the month of July so, I used beautiful yellow roses instead and told everyone to send yellow flowers, love _Constance

David Mchattie

Date: 5/8/2021 6:25:00 PM

I do love my tulips. They start coming up even before the snows gone. That is one hearty plant. Well penned. Have a great day.

Constance La France
Date: 5/9/2021 9:29:00 AM

David, thank you for the lovely comment and compliment, peace _Constance

Beryl Edmonds

Date: 5/8/2021 6:10:00 PM

Those beautiful flowers that come along in spring are simply delightful and make one’s heart sing. Your poem describes spring flowers so well Constance ~ Belle

Constance La France
Date: 5/9/2021 9:30:00 AM

Belle, thank you for the great comment and for the compliment on my poem, love _Constance

Arturo Michael

Date: 5/8/2021 3:05:00 PM

I like the presentation...I guess it's more the style...it has two voices...Like a storyteller would tell it...I also got a view of the snowdrops...

Constance La France
Date: 5/8/2021 3:54:00 PM

Arturo, thank you for the compliment, I am a storyteller and I reflect that in my poetry, the Ojibwe, my ancestors are known to be storytellers, my grandma was and it was the gift she left me, she never wrote a single story down, but could tell them word for word over the years, not me I have to write them down, peace _Constance

Sotto Poet

Date: 5/8/2021 2:39:00 PM

Clever presentation, dearest Constance; your flowers are beautiful, and I can't wait anymore for the poem. Good luck in the contest

Constance La France
Date: 5/8/2021 2:42:00 PM

Lasaad, thank you for the compliment on my poem, I mention Canada because I imagine every country would have different Spring flowers, peace _Constance