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