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    The Wounded Flower
    The Wounded Flower
    The Wounded Flower
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    The Wounded Flower

    By Richard Higley

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    The Wounded Flower

    I found a wounded
    flower while wandering
    far back roads
    Battered, bruised and
    bleeding from life's
    uncaring goads.

    Though tattered, torn
    and wilted, she offers
    beauty still.
    Sweet odor of
    enlightenment, she gives
    of her great will.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTrafford Publishing
    Release dateOct 1, 2013
    ISBN9781490712512
    The Wounded Flower
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    Richard Higley

    Richard Higley hated poetry until he wrote his first poem at the age of 58. He is a blue collar laborer who makes his home cross the Wabash River from Purdue University in Lafayette Indiana. Married more than 40 years, he is the head of a large family and the first branch of an even larger one. He has fathered seven children and is the proud grandfather of more than twenty. He is deeply spiritual, loves family and is still waiting to feel grown up.

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