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"Weeds"

#Whistpr Prompt of the Day



a dandelion growing through a wooden plank

She was wild as a weed. No one could tell her what to do or where to grow. Men tried: “Be a rose. Why can’t you be a regular rose?” The kind that would take to their pruning, grow in the shape they wanted.

She grew in concrete.

On the side of a wall.

You couldn’t tell her anything at all.













Whistpr is a daily writing exercise from Helen Whistberry. You can find their work at https://linktr.ee/whistberry or on Bluesky via @whistberry.bsky.social.



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