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ReplyTo a comment on The Poem of an Eighth-Grader by jessicazee.

jessicazee18 Jan 2003

thanks for the input...
that being said, I am 30 yrs old, and I found this poem in an 8th grade journal of mine. I know they don't lose color at night; I think the "fading" bit was meant as a metaphor to the death of the flower and gradual reinvention to seed pod. Adult to elder.