Tag: hope
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Parable of the Grapes: A Poem
Grapes I’d a cluster of purple grapes, ‘what sweet succulent taste awaits,’ I thought, taking one for delight, spitting it out, ‘this nothing sates,’ I said, repulsed, ‘such a sour blight, these must be wild grapes alright.’ The grapes are from the Vineyard parable of Isaiah, and seeming good and delicious but in reality sour…
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There is a Grave called Death: A Poem
There is a Grave called Death Some may think it a barren hope, and call the Christian a fool who at the sheer fantastic does grope, and say, ‘calm, you thing of lunatic; but so long is a length of rope.’ And, it’s true it’s a kind of kindness to inform of reality to the…
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To the Stargazer: A Poem
To the Stargazer Stars breathe light like fire shed in oblivion, like warmth breeding hope in nowhere, like the universe showing care, majesty, love, to an Earth’s eight billion. Far distant those dots of gold outsum space, their country of infinite black; no vast super-distance in lack for those beautiful bright lanterns to grace. What…
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Meditation on a leaf: A Poem
Isolated Leaf On a tree a lone leaf that perhaps wishes to entrust a grief to some soul magnanimous enough to consider the dignity of nature’s lowly twig furnisher: its fellows are shrivelling below and it won’t live to see the new green grow. ‘I half wonder,’ it said ‘if my sin was refusing to…
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