Contemplating Roses

by Ana Cristina

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My boyfriend surprised me with a bouquet of roses yesterday. They were pale pink, the flesh of the inner petals a darker shade, almost magenta. Their heads were so heavy that they nodded like sleepy children, their cheeks suffused with the red patches healthy children’s faces always seem to have.

I thanked him for the roses, genuinely surprised. Our anniversary had already passed, Valentine’s Day was still a couple of weeks away. I asked him what the occasion was, and he replied, “Just because.”

Of course, this only perplexed me more.

I know I have the tendency to over-analyze things too much; my horoscope told me so this morning. But sitting here, contemplating the beauty of these roses, the thoughtfulness of this timeless gesture, I can’t help but wonder:

When did it become de rigeur for suitors to give their lovers flowers whose blooms are, at best, transient?

And I cannot resist the sinful thought that a CD or a book would have made for a better gift. At least then I wouldn’t have to watch it die.

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Average Reader Rating: 4.5 stars out of 5

  1. Contemplating Roses

    heartbeats echocho's Buddy Icon heartbeats echocho

    Posted 7 months ago

    4.0 out of 5 stars

    awww Baroness, this is so cute. I love the last line…I have thought it myself many times.
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    butterflygirl6106's Buddy Icon butterflygirl6106

    Posted 7 months ago

    Very nice! The thought of a rose given to someone so special and the fact that its beauty is so delegate is at best if ment, as special as the rose itself.

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    SKermitgorf's Buddy Icon SKermitgorf

    Posted 7 months ago

    5.0 out of 5 stars

    awww. press it in the pages of a book.
    Its better to have had the beauty of the rose and the meaning behind it, at watch it die. then to never have had the rose and the love behind the rose. You painted a better description of the rose with your words than the picture did itself. Well done.
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    Posted 7 months ago

    5.0 out of 5 stars

    I agree with Kermit. Very well done. And nice job using words to get the picture across.
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