Cee’s FOTD Challenge & Jude’s Saturday Symphony #7
Green is the color of my stonecrop’s leaves
And leaves are the petals of its flowers.
The sun on my stonecrop shines fairest
Whilst summer roses fall by and by;
Its rose-bloom leaves gleam like emeralds
With a fire that will never die.
If I give you an emerald rose, dear,
As a promise my love will stay green,
Tell me weathered years will never dim
The love light in your eyes;
Else I shall be like a twice-doomed rose
That falls to the ground and dies.
Dora A. K.
This Jolly Beggar 
Oh my Dora, this is absolutely spectacular. I can read this again and again. Amazing. I’m proud to be associated with this. The beauty of love and horror 😍 of losing it. It’s nature and fantasy too💛💚
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Aww. Thank you so much, Jude. You are a jewel of a reader and such an encourager. Did I really tick off all the boxes? 🤗Your muse must have moved me. 😀💚
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Yeah you actually did. I was looking for a pair and found 2💪🏾😁
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Beautiful post! Lover your poem and the emerald rose. ❤ Cheers, Irina
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Thank you so much, Irina. 💚”My love is like a green, green rose” just didn’t sound right somehow. 😀
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You found a nice word for green. 🙂
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You got me! 😂
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Green is my color. Once I did grow succulents… but I over watered them.
I had a relative who was a ‘rose whisperer’… I didn’t get that ‘gene’.
Cheers, Jules
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My secret to succulents? Leave ‘em alone, except on the odd occasion. They seem to thrive that way for me anyway. I’m not a rose whisperer either, alas 😉
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I have good windows for African Violets… they take special soil though. I started with plants that had leaves only about a thumb nail in size (about 3/4″ diameter) and now one plant has leaves about 3″ diameter. And they Violets bloom every month of the year. 🌺 (mine are actually purple flowers)
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I love African violets 💜 My green thumb doesn’t extend to them either but perhaps I’ll try again. 😉
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Good luck 🍀
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