oh no , Odin, flowers that never open were never meant to be given? It takes care to find the right vase, the right light, to tend to growth. Maybe it means the one receiving was not ready to take, not ready to believe in the possibility. Or too, maybe just not wanted.

I'd Rather love and wilt generously. ;) An amazing thought provoking piece.

~Odin~
Flowers..lifting breath's fragrance to a smile
for a dream realized known by few..Lovely write.

Lady Mary Ann

Hi Odin, Since I haven't been checking out the read and review lists on tNBW lately I've probably missed your postings over there. It's nice catching up a little bit here for a change. I like this one. Nice flow, nice lesson (yikes!) hidden gently in these lines. Melancholy and yet hopeful. Maybe a little quiet self-flagellation for missed opportunities here as well. You always bring a mature and dignified approach to a poem about love. Of course you would, as you are mature and dignified fellow. Well done.
jim

The metaphor is well taken.

G

I just attended my high school reunion again last year and saw the same wallflowers there. The girls who stood in the background whenever asked to dance. And the guys who were too shy to ask them or had been turned down too many times and gave up trying. There's a lot of loneliness out there and that's why so many people get married for the wrong reasons and ended up divorcing, often leaving their children in the wake.

Perhaps if we had a little more sexual freedom, a lot of the problems involved with wishful loving would go away and our hormones would be satisfied without all the commitment thing that gets so tangled up in “love.”

Ron

so ture so very true
budd

'Mistake's tight-necked vase' - 'strangling' as a destiny. Tragic. But you paint a ray of hope, too - flowers that fail to open may never find pollination or progeny but they do display the sort of beauty which inspires hope, possibility, imagination. Perhaps not a mistake at all.
Well done, as usual.