Poets United Midweek Motif ~ Treasure

 

“If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.” — Jesus Christ

                                           

  

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  “Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.”— Walter Anderson

    Midweek Motif ~ Treasure

Today you are to write about that which you treasure most in your life. It might be a moment, a person, a relationship, a dream, a pet, your family, your life, a poem or whatever you think most valuable to you.

Here’s a treasure poem for you:

The Treasure

by Rupert Brooke

                      

When colour goes home into the eyes,

And light that shines are shut again,

With dancing girls and sweet birds’ cries

Behind the gateways of the brain;

Still Time may hold some golden space

Where I’ll unpack that scented store

Of song and flower and sky and face,

And count and touch and turn them o’er,

Musing upon them; as a mother who

Has watched her children all the rich day through

Sits, quiet-handed, in the fading light,

When children sleep, ere night.

Please share your new poem using Mr. Linky below and visit others in the spirit of the community—

                

(Next week Susan’s Midweek Motif will be ~ Beginnings)