Tuesday, July 7, 2015

The Purple Flower revisited

Recalling a post from March 2014 when I first put a photo of this flower and a poem by Joseph Kolawole.

Strangely, while we know who wrote the poem, the name of the flower escapes us.

This appears to be Aystasia instrusa.

We pass by people everyday - on the streets, in the bus, on the train, in the store - and they are often faces without names, without life.

What does it cost to take a second to share a smile or a hello.

Life as with the flower at the top? Or life as with the flower at the bottom.

And the words of Etienne de Grellet echoes in my head, again.

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