Hello Sunday Whirl...it's been a while

Gosh! That was fun! Been missing the Sunday Whirl and those twelve little word pushes to write something. Thank you Brenda, hope it's ok that I'm back. :)burden, bends, drunk, poetry, virtue, palace,ditch, diminishing, wish, breaks, room, stepsTwelve ways of looking at a potted plant-Twenty one years, fourteen houses, seven phone numbers, two drunk roommates, one potted plant.-Stretching from damp earth, sprouting at every angle, the potted plant reaches for artificial daylight in a windowless room.-The dirt-stained, rainbow-striped pot is a dollar-store palace for the potted plant-The potted plant once stood on the steps of a wooden ladder, an artistic homage to shabby chic.-Sitting on my desk surrounded by papers and trinkets and pencils and pens, the potted plant hears every wish I make.-If silence is a virtue then the potted plant can teach me a thing or two.-I thought it would be a burden but I didn’t realise how much neglect a potted plant could suffer and still survive-Potted plant beauty marks: yellow splotches brighten select leaves.-In my potted plant collection: Ivy, Orchid, Jade Plant, That-Plant-That’s-Still-Alive.-Accidently dropped on the kitchen floor, the potted plant bends and breaks stems. A natural pruning.-The potted plant ends its life in the back lane ditch.-Poetry is being read. It’s about the potted plant.