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I loved his poem . He talked about things that’s going on now in peoples lives . Like fathers not being around to tell their kids they love them . Girls growing up fast a lot of things that’s happening in today’s society . He used flowers as a example, same way flowers grow & blossom in their own way , we do too .

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The poet talks about the process of life by using the growth of flowers as a metaphor since flowers take time to grow into something beautiful. At the end, Jericho references three names of black men that had lost their lives so soon.
- Andrew Silas

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I thought that this poem used a really strong, specific, and unique metaphor to drive home a very important message that is relevant to current events today.

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I'm not a poem guy but I can understand the importance of the message being told, especially now.

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using the images of flowers was really beautiful and gave the reader a better understanding

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he put a lot of thought on how he worded things.. by using flowers in a metaphoric way.

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The poem flowed very nicely from idea to idea but it revolved around nature and human's effect on it and how people are like flowers.

It was an important message about how lives matter even if we don't pay attention to them, which I feel is very relevant in this day and age.

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The poem used the metaphor of flowers to show how people are being cut down before there true colors show.

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These things happen suddenly, and out of nowhere. Lives are cut off seemingly randomly and all too fast. This was something I assciated with the flower metaphor, like things suddenly popping open while blooming.
--Linden Burack

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I really liked the metaphor of flowers in the poem. He really paints a picture of how beautiful life is just like these flowers, and how tragic it is when lives are ended or "cut down."

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I believe that his poem went over themes of death. The use of flowers gave a more lovely tone but at the same time, it shows the suffering and killings of those who often get ignored.

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I thought the message in his poem was very important especially with everything happening in the world right now. In the beginning he used flowers to metaphor victims of police brutality, like Eric Garner for example.