From the Outside, Listening In.

hope (with a small ‘h’ )

Wind bruised winter
This fragile flower
shyly bursting through a defeated crack in the pavement
Leans, tired, pushed
Against the bitter rusted fence
Noble once, it shone and sparkled
Stood firm and proud

There’s a letter caught in the wire
Flapping this way and that
Frantic
Dreaming of flying through the night onwards
To the lover it was meant for

This fragile flower
A small dash of colour in this
Landscape of forgetting
Children, skaters once played here
Awesome, abrasive, immortal even as they crashed
Everything was hope
Defined by flirting and giggles and bravado

The sun sneaks out from behind the waiting storm
The flower bends
A fraction of a fraction
Up

nbtlisteningin

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6 responses to “hope (with a small ‘h’ )”

  1. Sunra Rainz Avatar
    Sunra Rainz

    A beautiful, hopeful image. Lovely poem, nbtlisteningin. I’m so glad you noticed this flower. This is a true definition of courage. My favourite lines:

    “wind bruised winter”

    the letter “Dreaming of flying through the night onwards
    To the lover it was meant for”

    and that final stanza:

    “The sun sneaks out from behind the waiting storm
    The flower bends
    A fraction of a fraction
    Up.”

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    1. nbtlisteningin Avatar
      nbtlisteningin

      Thank you! there actually was another line after ‘up’ gilding the lilly as it were, luckily a wise person noticed and said, very matter of factually ‘lose it’ and lo.. poem became far better

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  2. Ordinary Person Avatar
    Ordinary Person

    This can be interpreted in so many different ways because of the symbol used, but it’s a message of hope to me, and hope is what we need.

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    1. nbtlisteningin Avatar
      nbtlisteningin

      thank you, and hope no matter how small or fragile, is so important, literally keeping us going

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  3. jogarthheim Avatar
    jogarthheim

    Lovely poem Martin.

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    1. nbtlisteningin Avatar
      nbtlisteningin

      thank you most kindly

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