A Perception of Love
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Complete Sun, Jan 13, 2019<5 mins
A short collection of poems capturing the stages of a rose as comparison to a love life. From its peaked beauty to eventually wilting 🥀
A collaboration by Chavantay A Forbes and Tia L Basden.
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