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The river bridges and star charts and song harmonies All in service to a simple idea: That we can make a house called tomorrow ... — Alberto Ríos

Listen to the singing, the calling of harmony, the rhythmic hammering of nails in the boards of the house in the town in the years yet to come

We've sung our way into the past, too – drew upon shared memories of elders, but that's a song of yesterday — today, we holler out hope on behalf of tomorrow

Day 19 for #AdventPoems24 inspired by “A House Called Tomorrow” by Alberto Ríos https://poets.org/poem/house-called-tomorrow

A dazzling thing like day — Elsa Gidlow

Sunglasses come recommended on days such as these, the hours infused with something akin to the hope we all need; a light so bright, it cuts through night

Day 18 for #AdventPoems24 inspired by 'Hope' by Elsa Gidlow https://poets.org/poem/hope-3

Galloping, with abandon, as if dreams depend upon it,

the heart pumps with possibilities, keeping time;

And I am the writer, saddled with memory of moments left behind

Day 17 for #AdventPoems24 inspired by 'How To Triumph Like A Girl' by Ada Limon https://poets.org/poem/how-triumph-girl

Another problem child, wrapped around whiskey bottles in ships sent off into the world, the tufts of Broomsedge thrive where others struggle to remain alive, a seeded invader of unwanted stem and hew, like me and you — green as a child, then interestingly orange as adult, fading to wilted brown in elder age of fallow field— and even then, fire shows its limits, the blue-stem's fiber roots resilient to the point of frustration for farmers, everywhere

for Terry, in response to https://impedagogy.com/wp/blog/2024/12/13/remains-et-al/

And take the hope of dreams in trust — William Stanley Braithwaite

If we must, try, then, for if not, then what, and when?

Day 16 for #AdventPoems24 inspired by 'It's A Long Way' by William Stanley Braithwaite https://poets.org/poem/its-long-way

She quickens her pace - a race to make it back home; cold paws and chilled face

for Algot

with watermelon seeds we swallowed as children ... — Nomi Stone

Wonder what has rooted inside of us - despite warnings of elders, we swallowed it all; maybe there's an entire forest growing inside silent places, the spaces no one else sees, the seeds of abundance and stories

Day 15 for #AdventPoems24 inspired by 'Waiting For Happiness' by Nomi Stone https://poets.org/poem/waiting-happiness

teach me to never bend again — Danez Smith

for what we've become: creases, uncomfortable patterns folded in, then tucked inside pants pockets, then forgotten until after the drier, pulled apart like a paper snowball, all compact of ink and pulp and us

Day 14 for #AdventPoems24 inspired by 'Less Hope' by Danez Smith https://poets.org/poem/less-hope

Informational information; Monitorial foliation - flatiron tinfoil: afloat afoot afar - Art or?

for DS106 Daily Create

And would you learn the spells that drowse my soul? — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

And might you have a bit of magic in that feather pen of yours, a little bit of ink of forgiveness to sketch across my page, so that in the side margins, in that edge of art and ideas, I might settle in, in seclusion?

Day 13 for #AdventPoems24 inspired by 'Work Without Hope' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge https://poets.org/poem/work-without-hope