Flowers… I like flowers. They are beautiful symbols of life, fertility, and love. Its amazing how as an entity flowers are used to express different emotions. People buy bouquets to add color to their homes and offices, as a token of love to others, to brighten up an ailing person, to bring peace to a departed soul or just to feel better themselves.
The different colors and varied fragrances have a way of bringing about a smile on the recipients face. A smile like no other, a mix of contentment as they breathe in nature’s potion of life and pure visual pleasure at the array of colors. It is also the thought that someone carefully picked and matched a bunch of flowers with you in mind…like putting together a string of words to form a perfect sentence that expresses ones innermost feelings. A red rose if accepted is taken as a sign of reciprocated love, the sight of a discarded bouquet speaks of a broken heart. A flower truly is an expression of life which everybody celebrates in their own ways…
The delicate petals have inspired many a poet, and countless beauties have been compared with the daintiness of the blossoms… the softness of skin, the redness of lips, the tenderness of a touch, the sweetness of a kiss... the similes are unending. I do remember old hindi movies where a blossoming flower would imply the consummation of marriage. And in real life, a white rose is a sign of peace, yellow rose for friendship and red for love.. or so we believed in college. :)
My favorite flowers are orchids. They may not be fragrant, but when it comes to beauty...ah!! i love the quiet sensuality a single stem of orchids can infuse into a room. They seem to speak of unspoken promises. I feel happy when i see orchids.In fact if i were a flower i would bloom right then :)
"The Earth Laughs in Flowers"
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The different colors and varied fragrances have a way of bringing about a smile on the recipients face. A smile like no other, a mix of contentment as they breathe in nature’s potion of life and pure visual pleasure at the array of colors. It is also the thought that someone carefully picked and matched a bunch of flowers with you in mind…like putting together a string of words to form a perfect sentence that expresses ones innermost feelings. A red rose if accepted is taken as a sign of reciprocated love, the sight of a discarded bouquet speaks of a broken heart. A flower truly is an expression of life which everybody celebrates in their own ways…
The delicate petals have inspired many a poet, and countless beauties have been compared with the daintiness of the blossoms… the softness of skin, the redness of lips, the tenderness of a touch, the sweetness of a kiss... the similes are unending. I do remember old hindi movies where a blossoming flower would imply the consummation of marriage. And in real life, a white rose is a sign of peace, yellow rose for friendship and red for love.. or so we believed in college. :)
My favorite flowers are orchids. They may not be fragrant, but when it comes to beauty...ah!! i love the quiet sensuality a single stem of orchids can infuse into a room. They seem to speak of unspoken promises. I feel happy when i see orchids.In fact if i were a flower i would bloom right then :)
"The Earth Laughs in Flowers"
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ah..Beautifully written. One picture popped into my head when I was reading this. Your's and Amit's photograph sitting in between the garden of colorful tulips which again reminded me of our old time bollywood movie Silsila :)
ReplyDeleteI love flowers too. They just make your day no matter how gloomy you're feeling. The fragrance, the color, the freshness... My personal favorite are Daisies.
And ya I too remember the days when the color of the roses had significant meaning during college times. Everyone used to dream about red roses (at least I did) ;)
Aah Daisies! :) they are officially the "friendliest flowers" after meg ryan so cutely said so in 'you've got mail' :) thanks for your post liji!
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