wallflowers

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Monokaliteration

Sponsor: Nette Onclaud

Date: 5/29/25

wilting wallflowers wishing they were wild and wooly

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Nette Onclaud

Date: 6/2/2025 8:51:00 AM

there's this ache of longing which makes this marvelous work a great winner, oliver... thanks for joining my contest!

Oliver Mckeithan
Date: 6/2/2025 11:13:00 AM

Thanks much Nette. Excellent contest.

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 5/31/2025 12:51:00 AM

Oh way to go. I really wanted to do wallflowers but nothing would come to me. So I just went with wildflowers. This is so inventive and I can clearly see they WISH to be wild!

Oliver Mckeithan
Date: 5/31/2025 3:37:00 AM

Thanks Andrea. Your wildflowers is good as well.

Kim Rodrigues

Date: 5/29/2025 9:16:00 PM

Yes, true, but they’re rather shy. Perhaps they are wild and wooly but one day with that special find!

Oliver Mckeithan
Date: 5/30/2025 1:16:00 AM

You are probably right. Thanks for reading