Hope

"Although the nation is done for,
I find new flowers."

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from “Election Year” by Donald Revell

I was inspired by the lines from the above poem. This is a prompt from the Bibliomancy Oracle. It can work in hopeful ways. Also, Rommy at Poets and Storytellers United would like us to "to think about hope and what word brings up for you."

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Hope


( 1 )


How we walk this road is just all in our minds
Over a path of flowers or roads of rubble, wires entwined
Probably we will meet a helping friend along the way
Extending a warm hand when there is none, we pray.



09/07/2022
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( 2 )



How wild the flowers and weeds grow on the roads
On rubble and fences and embracing the noon sun.

Politicians plotting of wrecking the world, pause
Examine this old flower, Earth, adrift in space.



15/07/2022
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Both are acrostic poems. I sort of prefer the first one, as it really seems to express hope, while the second is too subtle. The first rhymes too. I wish I have more time to work on them, but hey, deadline! 😄

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