Say it with Ashes

We're so excited that this year's Ash Wednesday falls on Valentine's Day.

It gives Melissa Sparrow the chance to write a special series of poems reflecting on both the joy of love, and the fleeting nature of all earthly joys. 

Welcome to our special collection of Ashy Valentine cards. I think you'll agree - they're the perfect combination of romantic love and impending doom.

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Violets are blue, roses are red

let's get it on now, before we're both dead.

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Don't leaf me this way 

Why can't you see

I might fall off this tree?

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A rose by any other name

Would still be withered and dead within a fortnight.

Will you be my Valentine? 

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I've fallen for you

Can you pick me up

Before we're all just ashes?