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Like a Garden.by =CarolineCherry

Digital Art / Photomanipulation / Conceptual

Love’s like a flower, so they say
So old loves are put away
For who would ever rather stay
By a withered old bouquet
Than tread the paths of a garden?

For my Secret Valentine.

I don't know you very well, or know your thoughts on love, but I've gotta share this thought with you. Every love is special, and has it's place in your heart, and your life. But if something happens and a love ends, there's always more. If you cling to an old love, you're missing out. You're cherishing an arrangement of dried flowers instead of realising there's a wonderful garden around you, ready to be explored. But when you are in the garden, don't forget to pick a few flowers, to stash in a book, or in a drawer, to look at as time goes by...

For those of you not in the scheme, #ProjectComment and #alwaysmotivated are hosting a Secret Valentine affair, where you are given a name and a message of love from another deviant and you create a piece for them.

I created this piece for ~MermaidHair. She gave me this inspiration:

Love is like a flower
We're so eager for it to bloom
But in our rush we crush it
And every time we walk past our garden
We remember the pain of broken hearts
As we see our withered little flowers
All in a row.

I didn't try to create what she wrote, because then it would be her work and not mine. But as you can see, I was inspired by this theme of love as a flower. I just took it in a slightly different way.

Photo and Poem: Me
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_{And, if anyone cares, the book is "The Secret Garden". Chosen because it was pretty looking, and cos it seemed quite apt...}

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~cazzaritch Jan 6, 2011 Hobbyist Photographer

Gorgeous

=CarolineCherry Jan 6, 2011 Professional Photographer

Thanks love

~TheRedRidingHood Sep 5, 2010 Hobbyist General Artist

Featured in my Digital - part II journal entry.

!MermaidHair Feb 15, 2010

firstly, i love this
from the colour scheme to the font, it all seems to match very well to give a cool old fashioned kinda vibe.
and then i came to actually reading the words
and they were beautiful, you managed to say so much in so few words.
i like how everything seems sort of subtle, the flowers in the photo for example match perfectly and just fit in really well.
i don't really know what else to say...other than wow and you just made my day

=CarolineCherry Feb 15, 2010 Professional Photographer

I'm really glad you liked this...that made my day

~Daionii Feb 4, 2010 Hobbyist Writer

This is really beautiful. I love the colours, and I could just read that poem over and over. Very nice font you've used, too.

=CarolineCherry Feb 4, 2010 Professional Photographer

Thankyou very much!

It's so nice to hear the someone likes my work...

And I adore that font. It's called "Satisfaction" and I got it from dA, actually. There's some great stuff in the Resources gallery...

~Daionii Feb 4, 2010 Hobbyist Writer

Honestly when I read the poem I was expecting to find some famous poet's name written underneath or something.
Ooo, thanks, I must go on a search

=CarolineCherry Feb 4, 2010 Professional Photographer

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