Old Flower



Shriveled, dead, long gone
Beauty that was once alive
No way to re-live

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This haiku talks symbolically about how nothing is eternal.

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Written on April 11, 2023

Submitted by shyturtle29 on April 11, 2023

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Characters 71
Words 13
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3

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