Driftwood

by Sara Teasdale — a poem card from Justes Mots

A celebration of how romantic love enriches and transforms one's inherited nature, with lovers adding iridescent depth to ancestral flame like sea-transformed driftwood. Teasdale suggests that while ancestry provides foundation, romantic love creates the vivid beauty and meaning of life. Perfect for anniversaries and romantic occasions.

My forefathers gave me
My spirit's shaken flame,
The shape of hands, the beat of heart,
The letters of my name.

But it was my lovers,
And not my sleeping sires,
Who gave the flame its changeful…

Themes: love · new-baby · wedding · friendship