Hope

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Hope

A lifetime of infinite loss
rather than a stumbling few years?
A love twisted and contorted.
Memories of you leaving again
and again while I sit stoic,
but hopeful
that's I'll catch sight of the doorknob twisting,
that I'll hear the rapping at the already unlocked door,
that I won't mourn the crisp, ironed blues
in the chipped frame.

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DeepEclipse commented on Hope

05-25-2010

Out of the whole poem that first line echos in my head [A lifetime of infinite loss]. It is like it balances forever and never in one line. Emotional poem. The test of wanting/waiting on something yet to see or yet to remain unseen.

Marsink commented on Hope

01-18-2010

I am unsure of the hope that is to arrive, a real person or a fantasy. Past, present or never. I do like the picture you have introduced me to, if ambiguous.

HarverTomsson commented on Hope

09-04-2009

A feminine gaze at a masculine frame. Father, lover, husband. Was the betrayal more in the presence or the absence of such? Somehow the warm abiguity doesn't matter near so much as the heart of hope that waits for a redemptive differance to occur.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

Robert Frost (1875-1963) American Poet.

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