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For this bonus round, we're looking for prompts inspired by plant/flower symbolism and the language(s) of flowers!

Here are some resources on flower meanings:
Script Florist
Farmer's Almanac
Wikipedia: Hanakotoba
Wikipedia: Plant Symbolism

This round will end on July 1st.

Fills can be in any format, and you can fill your teammates prompts, but you cannot fill your own prompt.

You can post as many fills and as many prompts as you want!

for your prompt post title, please use the following format:

PROMPT: TEAM [TEAM NAME]

for your fill post title, please use the following format:

FILL: TEAM [TEAM NAME]

POINTS - BONUS ROUNDS
For prompts: 10 points each (maximum of 150 prompt points per team per round)
For fills:
First 4 fills by any member of your team: 100 points each
Fills 5-10: 50 points each
Fills 11-20: 40 points each
Fills 21-50: 30 points each
Fills 51+: 25 points each

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From:

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Like a sweet-apple
turning red
high
on the tip
of the topmost branch.
Forgotten by pickers.

Not forgotten—
they couldn’t reach it.

- Sappho, Fragment 23

From:

kannaa10y

the greater mind once dreamed of leaf and cast these caverns so. in every bush and every vine the mind of unn reveals itself to us.

- hollow knight

From:

kannaa10y

hidden unn, we need you now. we grow tired away from you. our leaves are falling.

- hollow knight

From:

missiletoe

Apple blossom - Preference

from Flower Meanings: The Language of Flowers

From:

missiletoe

Character A keeps trying to give Character B flowers but Character B is deathly allergic to them

From:

missiletoe

"In the end… all girls are like the Rose Bride.”

Revolutionary Girl Utena

From:

missiletoe

Striped carnation - refusal

from Flower Meanings: The Language of Flowers

mmmm i love toxic yuri

From:

missiletoe

Lady's Slipper - Capricious Beauty

from Flower Meanings: The Language of Flowers

From:

missiletoe

Forget-me-not - True love, memories, do not forget me

from Flower Meanings: The Language of Flowers

From:

missiletoe

Holly - Defense, domestic happiness

from Flower Meanings: The Language of Flowers

From:

missiletoe

Willow - sadness

from Flower Meanings: The Language of Flowers

From:

missiletoe

Oleander – beware, caution (and in Hanakotoba also danger)

from the Victorian flower language and Hanakotoba

From:

missiletoe

Waterlily - innocent heart, trust, faith

from Hanakotoba

From:

missiletoe

Zephyrlily – tainted love, letters, expectation

from Hanakotoba

From:

missiletoe

Fleur de lis - Flame, I burn

from French Countryside Flowers

From:

missiletoe

Anemone (Purple) - you believe and wait

from Hanokotoba

From:

kannaa10y

"You're staring down the road,
Burying your heart in the ashtray;
And you think it's gonna grow,
Like a wildflower on the side of the highway"

- wildflower, mel bryant & the mercy makers.

From:

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‘You gave me hyacinths first a year ago;
‘They called me the hyacinth girl.’
—Yet when we came back, late, from the Hyacinth garden,
Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not
Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither
Living nor dead, and I knew nothing,
Looking into the heart of light, the silence.

- T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land

According to Wikipedia, hyacinths were sacred to Aphrodite.

From:

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April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.

- T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land

The opening stanza of Eliot’s poem is a reference to and inversion of the opening line of Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, and may have also been inspired by the opening lines of the Walt Whitman poem from my next prompt.

Edited Date: 2024-06-24 07:55 pm (UTC)

From:

static_prevails

When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d,
And the great star early droop’d in the western sky in the night,
I mourn’d, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.

Ever-returning spring, trinity sure to me you bring,
Lilac blooming perennial and drooping star in the west,
And thought of [her] I love.

- Walt Whitman, When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d, an elegy written for Abraham Lincoln (and with one pronoun swapped out for yuri purposes)

From:

static_prevails

The eyes are not here
There are no eyes here
In this valley of dying stars
In this hollow valley
This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms

In this last of meeting places
We grope together
And avoid speech
Gathered on this beach of the tumid river

Sightless, unless
The eyes reappear
As the perpetual star
Multifoliate rose
Of death's twilight kingdom
The hope only
Of empty men.

- T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Men

From:

static_prevails

Hope'll set your eyes agleam
Like four feet dangling in the stream
But the Kingdom of God, it's a pressure machine
Every step, gotta keep it clean
…
I, I don't remember the last time you asked how I was
Don't you feel the time slipping away?
It ain't funny at all
It's gonna break your heart one day
…
Life'll grow you a big red rose
Then rip it from beneath your nose
Run it through the pressure machine
And spit you out a name tag memory

- The Killers, Pressure Machine

Edited Date: 2024-06-25 02:43 am (UTC)

From:

static_prevails

You belong among the wildflowers
You belong somewhere close to me
Far away from your trouble and worry
You belong somewhere you feel free

- Tom Petty, Wildflowers

From:

static_prevails

"The given meaning of pink hydrangeas is popularly tied to the phrase, 'You are the beat of my heart,' as described by the celebrated Asian florist Tan Jun Yong, where he was quoted saying, 'The light delicate blush of the petals reminds me of a beating heart, while the size could only match the heart of the sender!' " (from Wikipedia)

From:

static_prevails

"In the language of flowers, Coreopsis means to be always cheerful, while Coreopsis arkansa in particular stands for love at first sight." (from Wikipedia)