Congrats on your Win Sibs! Beautiful poems as usual and very deserving. I'm just copying my comments from Britt's contest.

"The description of this poem is beautiful, you seduced the senses. The scenario of a first kiss is often written about but I liked the comparison to that of a flower, it was delicate and because of this comparison to a flower it formed a more in depth concept of first love, first sexual experience and so on. The way you included scent with such detail was great, often one will include a scent but not actually describe it. The technique I was most fond of was the way you used alliteration, subtle yes but it altered often and was evident enough to tease the tongue. You had some creative ideas, leaves a hundred years dead was the phrase I was most intrigued about. You worked extremely well with the picture and made it your own, I felt this image would be the more difficult of the two as the other led you somewhere and gave you the tools, this one was up to the writers' imagination. I would remove 'much' before 'tasting' in the fourth line of the poem, it reads better without it."

-Mel

Agree with Mel above. This poem has a strange and likeable allure to it, perhaps the title aptly descibes the meaning behind it, of true love and the life stages with it, with analogy to the flower's life cycle. A lovely poem indeed.

-to the Rhythim of you and I by Lady gaga-

Something,something about this piece
something about the words the way
they're scrambled on the page,
something,something about this cool poem's vibe
there something about baby........this poem and I.

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First of all can I just say,
what a tasteful word choice? can I? can I?
okay I will say it,

what a tasteful word choice.

Sibs,
this was gorgeous.
there is just something about it!
and I can't even tell what it is precisely,
this almost feels like a song because of the
alliteration,

this was my favorite;

"I kissed my true love
and in that moment, in
the first dewy breath
out again I gave
my skin over"

this was so bloody elegant,
and thought provoking,I got the most romantic image in my mind.

seriously,woman
you have some serious tricks up on your sleeve, people should be careful with you.

for real.

I must have read it 5 times and still don't know what to say. The imagery has left me speechless. So much beauty in your words, so much creativity ... the delicate transition, the flawless flow of metaphors ... one couldn't help but read each line again and again to soak in it's beauty. An amazing write. One of the finest I have read in this site.