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Being a Sunflower

Being a sunflower in an ocean of sunflowers is exhausting constantly striving to be the most perky It cannot be done. There is always a perkier sunflower Next door or ten rows back, grinning and waving Showing the rest of us up I cannot be the most enthusiastic or the most excited I strive to be the best me sunflower I can be It is all I have

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Kim Rodrigues

Date: 2/9/2021 7:00:00 PM

Be the sunflower! Feel the power of the flower!

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 2/9/2021 7:45:00 PM

I do think I will come back as one next time around.

Constance La France

Date: 2/9/2021 3:30:00 PM

Caren, I think your personification of a sunflower is great, I know how that sunflower feels _Constance

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 2/9/2021 4:58:00 PM

Thank you Constance.

Joanna Feltham

Date: 2/9/2021 2:04:00 PM

The title of your poem caught my eye. I wasn't disappointed. I love it! I can definitely relate. :-)

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 2/9/2021 4:58:00 PM

Thank you Joanna

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 2/9/2021 1:46:00 PM

Love your creative way of viewing the world, Karen. you are indeed a wonderful sunflower.

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 2/9/2021 4:59:00 PM

Thank you my friend.

Maurice Rigoler

Date: 2/9/2021 1:45:00 PM

I've seen fields and fields of them in France where they end up not on an artists canvas but in bottles as sunflower oil. van Gogh made them famous with impasto brushwork. And speaking of the master, just last week I got an email from a Dutch friend who has learned she's related to van gogh through his first cousin, Adolpj le Comte, a Belgian artist who died in 1921. Imagine that! / Maurice

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 2/9/2021 4:59:00 PM

I cannot imagine. I hope I am related to Salvador Dali

Sand Blown

Date: 2/9/2021 11:51:00 AM

...karen!....you...you're a sunflower....ah! what a wonderful....um....way to look?... cofummph....but, your wright....rhythms and rhymes of sound versed and phrased that bloom under the light of...one's eye's ....anyway....i...better not over do it..... stans sand

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 2/9/2021 5:01:00 PM

You already did though so too late

Tom Cunningham

Date: 2/9/2021 10:58:00 AM

And a beautiful flower they are too, roll on summer. Tom

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 2/9/2021 5:00:00 PM

They are my state’s flower. Go Kansas!

Sara Kendrick

Date: 2/9/2021 5:06:00 AM

Ahhh!! Good comparison ..A sunflower is beautiful in the sun but don't come too close for it is rough, dry and scratchy. Sara

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 2/9/2021 5:01:00 PM

They are so rough I still remember the first time I touched one.

Victor Buhagiar

Date: 2/8/2021 10:41:00 PM

Miss Sunflower took the prize. ~~

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 2/9/2021 5:01:00 PM

Thank you Victor

Gershon Wolf

Date: 2/8/2021 8:52:00 PM

Hahahah! But Caren, you simply have to be the best sunflower, with the most seeds, the tallest, the most colorful. Bah, humbug. Sunflower trophies for one and all. ~ Dr. Jill Biden

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 2/8/2021 8:57:00 PM

True enough; what was I thinking?