Moon Blooms, Flower Smiles | Phuong Le Memo

The poetry described the drawing that there is a very long-haired girl who was planting a flower for a thousand years. The plant grew so high that it reached out of her sight, making her wonder, "Why isn't it blooming?" Meanwhile, despite the thousand-year effort of the girl, the flower had bloomed proudly as high as the moon, without the girl having any clue that it had bloomed. Finally, where the flower and the moon met, they created a humorous title for the poem, "Moon Blooms, Flower Smiles," showing her confusion between her flower and the moon.

Back to our world. We humans have a plant like this plan, whether it is a habitat you have planted for a long time or an idea that has been executed for years. We plant our flowers, and one day, there is a plan that just grows into a different form, like it just keeps growing higher and higher but never blooms as it was supposed to. For years, hundreds of years, thousands of years… you don't know… not yet. So Phuong's drawing encourages people to keep planting their own flowers as long as they still survive. Don't worry just because it hasn't bloomed yet—love the form it was made of. Because probably, this flower was supposed to bloom with the moon.

The way she used "miraculous" impressed us at the end of the poem. The art makes me relate so much to Phuong's journey. She has been planting for years, with a strong will that the flower is going to bloom in a miraculous way!

…Oh, wait, has it bloomed already? Isn't it?