Here and now
I do not give much belief to the news
writ so simply
made of nothing
who expects every hour
to be troubled with fear
or hope
now is not in a day or two
I look after it
my little lock
Poems on the topic: hope
Poems on the topic “hope” on Poets.by.
Antidotes
to see simply
beyond all words
rendering every body wonderful
to meet others as I find myself
with ash for dinner and a little hope
the frost will break
Lowered expectations
I miss the ordnance in hope
turn as far as the peak
and so home to church
and a ham supper
Things fall apart
where rivals play-act a war
and we all give the given talk
where they know things
from the king’s own mouth
I trust an atheistic drunk
to account for hope
Totem
wren like a public hope
little but neat
as well-dressed as the barber
in a street of ash
Hope against hope
hope is a little doll
trimmed with ribbon
a pretty slave
buy a rabbit but like
the head of a king
never find him in a hat
Epigraph
I have bled good cheer
I have pretended to hope
I have set down in this book the grace of what
I have
Procrastinator
I have come to the height of neglect
the not-done not minded at all
give me a knock on the head
with a rose full of sorrow
my not-doing is made
out of hope and shame
Survey
in constant fear
I survey my heart for hope
an acre of land bought
for nothing but a laugh
How to resist
no laws will save us
the old simple manner that used to do
being gone
danger is an instrument
made of questions
I must be at home with hope
Planetary news
I look about to see
if I could hope
we live still
in a boreal poem
but now like a sudden letter
coming from a soldier
Hearing voices
I hear nothing
but a great tree
the voices that have
been with me all my life
crowd into the crown
an oratory of disorder
compelling hope for the future
like an idle boy
looking in our faces
to see who we might be
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