VISUAL PROMPT

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Create a story or poem with the theme of 'Dead Roses'.

Are Those My Roses?

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Cleaning old flowers that were left on my grave

For how long have they been there?


Stuck underground for many years. I can’t remember all the years that have past.

So ,When did someone visit me last?

Was it a week ago?Or maybe it’s been many,many months.Maybe, no one came at all!


Probably,just the wind blowing flowers wildly throughout these tired and dreadful months


Flowers Landing on everyone’s grave.A flower , a petal, something from Nature.Reminding the tombstones,they are not forgotten


I’ve been dead for so long. Anyone who every visited has passed. I’m no longer a memory to anyone

My children,grandchildren, and my great great grandchildren are gone.


Now ,I’m just a patch of dirt, with a headstone on my shoulders.

My name and date embroidered in slate

For I am over two hundred years old!


Rose’s dead roses. That’s all I see!

I wonder if they were meant to be for me!



So who paid respects to my tombstone?

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