The Myth and Romance of Tulips
In Ancient Persia, Farhad, a Persian youth, loved Sharin, a beautiful girl. He adored her madly and deeply from a distance, and that love was returned, and grew in their hearts. But a jealous rival gave Farhad a message that said his beloved Sharin was dead. Agonised, and with no reason left to live, he threw himself over a cliff. But Sharin wasn’t dead, and when she heard he had died she was inconsolable. The ancient gods of Persia made tulips grow in the ground where Farhad had fallen, immortalising their love in the form of a beautiful flower which blooms each Spring.
copyright Monika Roleff 2005.
posted by Imogen Crest @ 6:02 AM
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And I put tulips in a vase by my father's photo to remember him as I saw him last, in a field of tulips holding my mother's hand.
You've given me a million chills, but all worthwhile...there is something infinitely regal and sustaining about tulips and the special love they convey...
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