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Tag: hope

Soon the Sun Will Be Blazing

Though today
We are
Dazing
While mindlessly
Grazing

#napowrimo2022, hope, lucky

Sonnet XXXIX: On Advent – VI

I wait for joy. Again, this year, I wait.

advent, hope, hopeless, joy, waiting

This Thing Called Hope – Sonnet XXXIII

So pushing on, I live my Best Todays / And Trust Tomorrow’s Hope will Suit our Ways.

hope, optimist, pessimist, realist, reality

Afghanistan – August 2021

Dreams Dashedof Desired Destination We’ll now never get There from Here As if there had been a Chanceof anything other … More

abandoned, Afghanistan, airlift, broken promises, hope, hopeless, Kabul

leaving hope behind

branches reach across the chasm of flat, liquid nothingness

cycles, hope, hopeless, seasons

glimmers

scintillating sparkles in oceans of inky blackness

hope, parenting, potential, seeing

halo-ringed

This is the essence of hope – Vistas unshrouded by light.

#haiku, #tanka, halo, hope, perseverance, sun

on advent – ii

the crooked made straight

#haiku, advent, hope, Isaiah 40, Luke 3, messianic, prophecy, waiting

on advent – i

we wait and wait…and…

#haiku, advent, darkness, hope, light, waiting

hold on tight

factory-installed

choices, cliff, despair, determinism, fate, free will, hope, Thelma and Louise

the greatest of these…

They say love lasts forever.

1 Corinthians 13, Faith, Hebrews 11, hope, Love

downstream – #SoCS

water carries life and death at once.

Atwood, dystopia, future, hope, Huxley, Orwell, resistance, Utopia

Sonnet II – hope’s lament

I fear that I shall never live to see / a world that’s lived the way her God designed

charades, Christ, Christianity, church, fruit of the spirit, hope, Jesus, judge

validated

Today I live and stand in my own story.

#napowrimo, #napowrimo2020, choice, hope, Life, Love, Poetry, recovery

termites’ demise

if only I could turn
the whole structure
inside
out

darkness, hope, light, Poetry, sunlight, sunshine, termite

bellis perennis

Her only adornments are hope and innocence
An instinctive modesty, not a conscious constraint

daisy, flower, hope, innocence, Poetry, simplicity

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 … More

attention, contentedness, Faith, forgiveness, grateful, hope, Life, Love, mary oliver, niebuhr, perspective, thankful
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