Tender Beauty

Thoughts by Prashanti

The texture, the pattern, the colours, the shade of the flower is naturally so beautiful so as we should be naturally beautiful. With some pleasing days, with thunder storms, with the heavy rain it tries to bloom slowly taking the help of the dusk and dawn it changes to a flower. Not an easy task but the change of little bud to a flower is so pleasing. Closed with the overlapping petals it stays..waits for the time to rise it steps into one step of life to half bloom and then blossoms. With so many challenges/difficulties they try to have full life don't pluck them as they look beautiful in the presence of nature and making nature elegant in it's beauty of colourful shades of pink, red, blue, orange, golden and so many...rising with the rays of sun they sway through the mid vibes of the windy air. Learnt to…

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