Warning

Cherry

By jennifer

Wed, 14 May 2025
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Warning

 

Jennifer Pickup, 14.05.2025

 

The best things are intangible

Those precious things

We can’t see or touch

Money can’t buy the best things

Those special things

We want too much

 

Luck and love and happiness

Youth and health and trust

Flowers that bloom most brightly

So soon are turned to dust

 

The best things are frangible

Those beautiful things

After which we lust

Be careful with the best things

Those magical things

Gifted to us

 

Mercury and quicksilver

Slipping through your hands

Moonbeams and full arch rainbows

Time drowns us in its sands

 

A tattered four leaf clover

A black cat that does not cross

Before the party’s over

An echoed sense of loss

 

Heartbreak and disappointment 

Our bodies all fail and age

And there will be betrayal

Joy descends into rage

 

The best things are ephemeral

Those borrowed things

They all self-combust

You cannot keep the best things

Those cherished things

Don’t stay with us

Certificate U
Poem
Hurricane Warning (2025)
Philosophy

Comments

Submitted by Jessiibear on

Your word play, the message--both stunning and poignant, in my opinion 

Jessheart

Submitted by jennifer on

Sadly my words became more poignant for me as my day unfolded on the 14th, this poem now feels like second sight.

We need to treasure those precious things while we can. 

J x

 

Submitted by D G Moody on

So true Jennifer - 'do not store up your riches where the moths and rust can eat them'.

Dougie Moody

Submitted by jennifer on

Yes, a very poignant few lines:

Matthew 6:19-21

'19 “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. 20 But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.'

Sadly some of my greatest treasures are now in heaven.

J x

 

Submitted by D G Moody on

Thanks Jennifer. A saying that I've kept: 'you can't build a house on a bridge', for me, when we look around our nice home, I remind myself that one day, sooner or later, some other people will live here. It's relations that matter.

Dougie

Dougie Moody