Friday, May 11, 2018

Hope Is in the Hollow of Your Heart

May 11, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Mother’s Day, which is celebrated on May 13th.

I welcome comments on my poems at http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com .

A Mother’s Day poem about hope and time:

Hope is in the hollow of your heart,
A place that’s safe from everyday despair,
Part of you with which you’ll never part,
Part of you that always will be there.
Years pass, your child becomes who she will be,
More herself, less the self you dreamed,
One who is more act, less potency,
Though still no less the gift that she first seemed.
How might you hope as much as years go by,
Even as time offers you less room,
Refusing to ignore the truth or lie
‘Mid gardens still in leaf but past their bloom?
Sing of hope, that is with fortune born,
Desiring joy at night as much as morn,
Alive with dreams and wonder, just as when
You were a child, now no less than then.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Mother’s Day
5/11: Hope Is in the Hollow of Your Heart

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