Lovely vibrant imagery throughout this ode to the demise of many flower types. I particularly liked the imagery of thistle spores flickering the tulip heads, the oak bleeding from its leaves and the whimpering of the white Milly. A most enjoyable read. Milly x

I loved the imagery mark. The story you told was great!

Thou Mark back with a vengeance this week! This is brilliant ... like post apocalyptic life on earth! Love it! :-) x
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Mark,
A wonderful piece from you, so much imagery with a great ending
well done fella
Michael :)

No clue Mark how you always come up with such ideas and then you weave them with your magic pen leaving us in their beauty.
Whatever you choose to write sad or happy your language is always beautiful.

Beautiful write

Mark - the imagry in this is pefection.
Cant do anything but nominate!

Aside from some grammatical errors, this is a legendary work of imagery. It honestly had me thinking of the California wildfires while I was reading it, though it could very well be, in its entirety, a metaphor to something much more sinister (alluded greatly by the last line, "Teary liquid dribbles (and weary lipped ripples) flow slowly onward, onto the scorched earth, sorrowfully.", perhaps literally meaning a substance leaking from the plant after it has been all but turned to ashes, but possibly a tearful person after their life has fallen apart, as has the flower bed.)

Definitely crazy that the entirety of this poem happens in all but a moment, and so many lives and flower beds were destroyed and are being destroyed in California.

Regardless, here are some corrections I'd make:

*Thistle spore's = Thistle spores (if you're talking about the spores of a thistle, it could even be "Thistle's spores".)

*corode = corrode (though seeing as you have some older French spelling in here, perhaps corode with one 'r' is correct in a more archaic form)

*lilly's = lily's

*commom = common ?

*"Its a day we dread" = "It's"

*tred = tread

Regardless, wonderful rhyming scheme and your wording is stupendous. I could not have written such a masterful piece if I had been paid to do so; kudos to your word choice resulting in a masterpiece.

Great job,
S

Oh Mark, the visuals with this write are wonderful. I am so sadden though, with the loss of the flower bed due to the fire. Such devastation fire brings. Well done-

Absolutely fantastic visuals

I really have no words for this.. Honestly. This is beautifully worded. Excellently written, given many visuals telling stories of their own. This is an amazing write. Added to favs.