Grasp Pluck A Flower

If my hand were to reach out grasp pluck a flower to symbolize a life concept, what flower would it be? Be it possible token taken would achieve immortality? What value the token? What matter the choice? To be immortalized dramatically in a play the choice of a flower scene in a churchyard! Really, image an apocryphal scene in the Temple Garden? What flower do you choose? With a life's struggle bursting out from between the two lines, English blood will slay English blood in a series of deadly dynastic civil wars fought in several, spasmodic battles for a prize, for the throne of England. How choose you? What say you now? Be it the white rose? Be it the red rose? Be ye for the White Rose of York? Be ye for the Red Rose of Lancaster? Your decision bore thirty years of war for the pick of different coloured roses; at the Temple Church, the banner of a white boar, or red dragon to die under. Was the choice of a rose of importance; after the last battle was won? Henry VII will combine the white and red roses; into single red and white Tudor Rose; to found the House of Tudor; to rule England and Wales; for 117 years; to end these; Wars Of The Roses. In beautiful images of nature, framed also in cultural images, so much may be achieved, in golden years, saved, from wise lesson values of the past. Copyright © Terence George Craddock