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Addition:
Someone asked me about the symbolism of the colors in tulips:
- Red tulip symbolizes love and romance.
- Pink Tulips- a symbol of caring, attachment (not as strong as love, like the red ones) and good wishes.
- White Tulips- representing purity, innocence, forgiveness and respect, to give with an apology.
- Cream-colored tulips are closely related and have a meaning of commitment.
- Purple Tulips- symbolizing royalty; also symbolizes rebirth
- Yellow Tulips- their meaning has evolved over time from representing hopeless love, to a more positive meaning of brightness and sunshine.
- Variegated Tulips – symbolize beautiful eyes because of their gorgeous color patterns.
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© rgb for “On Dragonfly Wings with Buttercup Tea”, 2011 – 2013
Prompt:
Tulips
"On Dragonfly Wings with Buttercup Tea" 
Beautifully composed Becca and thank you for explaining the colors of the tulips. I didn’t know that the colors of tulips had a deeper meaning. I thought only roses had that deeper meaning. Thank you so much for sharing this little gem or shall I say ‘little diamond’.
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beautiful post !!
internal butterflies made me smile biiiig 🙂
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Oh that#s very nice! That mirroring image again…wonderful!
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This is like a postcard from the coming spring bringing a lovely message along.
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Thanks for the nice information about tulips, Becca: color yields message, yes, now I understand.
The pics of tulips in the jar is as lovely and elegant as your haiku.
🙂
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a lovely photo and haiku.. and thank you for including some info on tulips ^^
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Photo is gorgeous…brightens the wintery day…January thaw … near 30 degrees ☺
Color yields message..new to me, but sounds wonderful, like the roses doing the same.
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