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I've rereading Shelley's "The Sensitive Plant," and I have finally found a good pic of the actual flower, which appears in popular scenes and posters featuring some girl softly blowing its petals away. A symbol of fragile beauty, Mimosa Pudica looks like this:

Then I wrote this short poem and used a painting by Dicksee, which the painter made specially to depict this peculiar sensitive plant of Shelley's, the vivid picture of Shakespeare's Ophelia, isn't it?

Here's the piece (without a title):

Thanks for reading.

Image 1 - The Sensitive Plant by Frank Dicksee_

Image 2 - "Mimosa Pudica" - Photo by Alex Popovkin

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