hope
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Soon the Sun Will Be Blazing
Though today We are Dazing While mindlessly Grazing
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Afghanistan – August 2021
Dreams Dashedof Desired Destination We’ll now never get There from Here As if there had been a Chanceof anything other thanHerein the first place. Since There can’t get Here Perhaps we could gowith you now to the SomeplaceYou wanted us to Become? Instead, Hopes are crushedin cruel climaxas the blades of a cruelreligiousregime hack at…
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leaving hope behind
branches reach across the chasm of flat, liquid nothingness
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halo-ringed
This is the essence of hope – Vistas unshrouded by light.
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hold on tight
factory-installed
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the greatest of these…
They say love lasts forever.
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downstream – #SoCS
water carries life and death at once.
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Sonnet II – hope’s lament
I fear that I shall never live to see / a world that’s lived the way her God designed
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validated
Today I live and stand in my own story.
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termites’ demise
if only I could turn the whole structure inside out
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bellis perennis
Her only adornments are hope and innocence An instinctive modesty, not a conscious constraint
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The power of paying attention and gaining perspective
Today I will let others’ words speak: From this morning’s episode of “On Being“, with Krista Tippett: The Summer Day Mary Oliver Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean- the one who has flung herself out of the grass, the one who is…
defying atrophy 