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Tag Archives: hope
#3 Darkness
She can only hopethat she brings certain light intosurrounding darkness. Elizabeth L. Crawford 11/1/21
Finding The Pattern
NaPoWriMo 2019 – Day 18 Finding the Pattern Isn’t it strange, how in one moment a pattern appears after years of seeming unknowing? Sudden definition puts its foot forward, leaving a print that can no longer be dismissed. Hope rises … Continue reading
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Tagged dread, footprint, heart, hope, mind, pattern, unknowing
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Carpetbaggers
For Poets United Midweek Motif: Change http://poetryblogroll.blogspot.com/ Carpetbaggers Change is upon us. We knew it was coming, yet are not prepared. Couldn’t have dreamed of these possibilities, so scream at nightmares unleashed. Waste energy girding belts already tightened, watching enlightenment … Continue reading
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Tagged Carpetbaggers, change, darkness, hope, Light, Midweek Motif, nightmare, Poets United, possibilities
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Hope
For Creativity Challenge Day 12: Writer/Artist http://1sojournal.wordpress.com Hope Heart leaps at the idea that American Vets will come in numbers, without guns, to clasp arms, to peacefully protect the Water Protectors. Finally, at last, centuries of betrayal, of broken treaties, … Continue reading
Posted in hope
Tagged creativity challenge, Feel, hope, see, taste, unity, Vets, Water Protectors, writer/artist
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This Poem
For Creativity Challenge Day 6: Inspiration http://1sojournal.wordpress.com This Poem This poem is an old woman. This poem is a glass window. This poem is a drop of rain. This poem is an old woman standing at her window, remembering the … Continue reading
Posted in This Poem
Tagged creativity challenge, hope, inspiration, old woman, rain, window, world within
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Still Possibilities
For Sunday Whirl: Wordle #55 http://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/ This week’s words are: cobalt, align, hook, vibrate, print, grind, contrast, emerging, chance, clear, dot, wink. Still Possibilities Printed words of old poems stored in files emerge like cobalt blue hook tied to vibrating … Continue reading
Posted in Still Possibilities
Tagged hope, misaligned dreams, Poetry, possibilities, Sunday Whirl, then and now, word puzzle, wordle
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What Won’t Wait
November PAD Challenge Day 7: For today’s prompt, write a “what won’t wait” poem http://www.writersdigest.com/editor-blogs/poetic-asides/poetry-prompts/2011-november-pad-chapbook-challenge-day-7 What Won’t Wait Immediate need to grow butterfly feet, skin-on-skin sensitivity to each breathed in moment. Hands flutter to grasp what passes for reality, but … Continue reading
Posted in What Won't Wait
Tagged butterfly fly, flick of wings, hope, November PAD Challenge, poem a day, reality unnoticed, sensitivity, skin on skin, storm, what won't wait
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Soul's Music 