Living Plants

Most of us taste the stalk

But we never see the flower

Author's Note

The stem isn't so bad... but the flower is more beautiful

Reviews

[John the Baptist]

I think this brief offering speaks of the lot of most people. Because of our restrictive mindsets we only experience the surface of life. To experience the "flower," we must expand our mental capacities so that we can be aware of what we've been missing.
PS:You don't need an apostrophe in the title.

[Davidgeo]

Oh thanks for that... I appreciate it.

[Ana Papaya]

I like this. It's a good reminder to look for the good and beautiful parts of life, people etc

[Davidgeo]

I think most people (where I am from) live in a fantasy of unattainable standards. It is the source of America's special brand of "mid life crisis". No one does it like us. The commodification of a mental health crisis in real time. It's, not cool man.

[Ana Papaya]

I cannot disagree with that

[Chris Shaw]

Two lines which say so much. Speaks to me of disappointment. The promising relationship nipped in the bud. The flower which never bloomed. A tragedy.

Chris

[Poetic Beauty]

Flowers are beautiful but not always nutritious.

Although I think you mean we don’t always see the rewards of our labor.

[Davidgeo]

This can mean many things. Perhaps a relationship that never fulfills or a friendship that ultimately turns out to be hollow.

[Davidgeo]

Flowers are beautiful aren't they? I love how plants harvest the sun.

[Poetic Beauty]

Flower are beautiful and they smell amazingly. I love to work in the flower beds. Some of our daffodils are bloomed already. I like to watch as the plants begin to sprout and poke up out of the ground this time of years. There is something magical about spring

[Davidgeo]

Spring is (depending on where you are at the moment)Earth's yearly revival time... giving birth to new life from wet dirt by way of the sun... it is almost magical. Until you really look into it... it's actually more magical than we think. This place shouldn't really exist.

[Poetic Beauty]

It is spring here. And the trees are budding. One day they are bare and dormant and it seems as if over night they are budding, turning the earth colors from the desolate barren winter.

[Davidgeo]

Color isn't actually real. We make that s**t up in our brain for our own purposes of identifying nutrients to survive on and plants only look like "colorful" like that because those wavelengths are reflected due to energy limitations. The full spectrum, if we could actually see it, would be a blinding opaque "light" of pure electromagnetic radiation. We are lucky we can't see most of it... some creatures evolved to see none of it, under the ocean etc...

[Poetic Beauty]

Some of these things I know some I didn’t not but for me I sometimes, most time I like keeping it simple. I do thank you for sharing that knowledge though!!