Ga-ther-ing Pop-pies

by Alexander Pope — a poem card from Justes Mots

Children gather bright scarlet poppies from a cornfield, celebrating the fleeting beauty of flowers that must be picked before summer heat withers them. Pope uses the poppies' brief life cycle as a meditation on transience and the sweetness of life's short moments. The poem serves as a gentle reflection on appreciating beauty and nature's ephemerality.

Through the corn the chil-dren creep,

Where the nod-ding pop-pies sleep,

Fill-ing hands and a-prons white

With the scar-let blos-soms bright.
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