The Buttercups, the Ferns, the Oak Leaves, and the Shy Little Drawing

 

 

 

 My folk‑style creation: a shy drawn girl nestled in petals, oak leaves, buttercups, and ferns.

 

“We have been resting for many seasons,” murmured the buttercups, their soft golden faces glowing.

“Curled and quiet,” whispered the ferns, unfurling their green fronds. “Old, but still listening,” rustled the oak leaves with their crinkled edges.

We gathered in a gentle circle around a shy little drawing — a small face, a leaf‑shaped hand, and a crown of dried petals.

Then, together, we began to speak her story. Softly. Simply. The way leaves and flowers speak when a child is listening.

We are only old oak leaves, dried and quiet now, but we have seen many small things in our time. We watched you sit with your roses — the red ones once bright, the white ones soft — and press their petals inside old newspaper pages. We saw the colours change, the whites turning yellow and brown, the reds settling into a deep village‑wine shade.

Then we watched you draw her — that little face in ball‑point pen. A simple girl, like someone from a small village story.  Her eyes stayed small and shy, as if she belonged right there on the page, held by her leaf‑hand and the circle of petals around her.

You placed the dried petals around her, making a border like a tiny wreath. We rustled softly, liking how she looked surrounded by what once bloomed.

And when you hung her near us, we gathered close — us oak leaves, the buttercups with their sunny memories, and the ferns curling like shy forest children. We framed her together, as if she were part of an old folk charm, something made quietly by hand.

We are only leaves, but we know when something feels true. Your little drawing carries a small story now — simple, gentle, and touched by the woods.

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