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White is everywhere this morning – night paint dripping off frozen branches

for Algot

but we are only believers — Gabrielle Marshall

A hidden handful of nuts seeded inside a ski boot is a lost note that some critter had endless amounts of hope of what might root when the need arises;

I remind myself of this, the faith of the forgotten, as I toss the same seeds back into the world

Day 8 for #AdventPoems24 inspired by 'The Power of Hope Today' by Gabrielle Marshall https://poets.org/poem/power-hope-today

in my case, canvas ... — Terese Svoboda

lower case letters; signals from the edge of a wrinkled piece of paper,

some ink strewn on, a light from the moon on a dress, a mess, later, I'll probably hedge some sort of guess

that this is what you get when you aim for art, and miss the rest

Day 7 for #AdventPoems24 inspired somewhat by 'Hope Wanted Alive' by Terese Svoboda https://poets.org/poem/hope-wanted-alive

Words, hard to find, nest themselves inside my ear

then, like that, disappear

a year or more later, there they are,

at rest as if they had never left

as if, they never went far

at all

Day 6 for #AdventPoems24 With only the vaguest reference to Nate Marshall's “what it is & will be” https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1mMIKnZM1jq6CAi_1jzlJ6ujUFBJIyjSHkNwabBI4tOU/present#slide=id.g31698387273_0_1

Fur, too, digging in with little feet, burrowing in against the inclement - never waning, there's no time for complaining - there's only breathing in the rhythms of each other

Day 5 for #AdventPoems24 inspired by 'Hope Is A Thing With Feathers' by Emily Dickinson https://poets.org/poem/hope-thing-feathers-254

... pavement strewn with the confetti ... by Ada Limon

I'm bent crooked from bending down at my waist as I pick up the words I dropped here yesterday, my ideas veined in yellow and gold, like leaves of Autumn, now just as fragile, too, and my clenched fingers turn each couplet and stanza into powdered dust, compost for some future poem

Day 4 for #AdventPoems24 Line taken from 'Instructions On Not Giving Up' by Ada Limon https://poets.org/poem/instructions-not-giving

Under time lives silence — from Original Hope by Lauren Camp

Quiet, then, for a moment,

a respite in the storm of noise

The world's most cherished silent spaces

beckon to us; we listen

Day 3 for #AdventPoems24 Inspired by 'Original Hope' by Lauren Camp https://poets.org/poem/original-hope

Dark roads like these don't remain so; the promise of morning always brings light

Day 2 for #AdventPoems24 inspired by 'Opening The Hands Between Here And There' by Jane Hirshfield

Advent of Hope by Deanna M. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1mMIKnZM1jq6CAi_1jzlJ6ujUFBJIyjSHkNwabBI4tOU/present#slide=id.g317dfd1e88d_0_0

The first of many cold days ahead – sorta wish it was Spring, instead

for Algot

A long line of Pine, in a winter grove; Warblers dancing on needles