Hope

Another older poem written when I was in Maui. Seems rather apropos for what is going on now.. Freestyle

HOPE....

Precious moments so clear,

a time of hope ...

a time of fear.

There is a time in our lives

when we must give up all lies.

Move on to the truth and enjoy

the time we have left, and 

release the fear

with hope.

Reviews

[Linda alexander]

This writing is footed so much to real world. It may be hard to migrate from fear to hope and freedom. In our lives especially after seeing so much and managed many issues there is a time, we need to breath little easier otherwise we never live without fear. Truth and poetry combined what a beautiful marriage.

[Lisasview]

I realize that somehow I neglected to to thank you for your wonderful review...so thank you,
Lisa, now in Spain

[Ioana Mihai]

Beautiful poem, so true that fear is what stops us living and believing most often, we carry our enemy within us, complicating our lives when we should live free of fear, yet full of hope… good reading and reminder, thank you.

[Lisasview]

I am so glad you liked my poem. Although written many years ago on a scrape of hotel paper while in Maui I decided to submit it as I felt it was apropo for what is going in now.

[Ioana Mihai]

Beautiful story of it, thank you for sharing about it 😊

[Lisasview]

You are so very welcome.

[Chris Shaw]

Your lines are uplifting to read Lisa and enjoyed. I also like your choice of posted artwork. Hope is a word all of us cling too. The last two weeks politics in our country has been brought to a new low, with lie after lie being told by government. Our own Prime Minister is up to his neck in it. If you can't trust the people leading the country to tell the truth, what hope have we got. Good to see another post from you and look forward to more. Are you feeling better yet,?

Chris

[Lisasview]

Oh goh Chris..I thought I had responded to your lovely review..so so sorry.
You are such a dear.. Perhaps when we are in England c=visiting family we can meet up.. Now wouldn't that be grand!!

[Chris Shaw]

You know I do admire that you have gone back years, to your first poems, have resurrected them and now work on them to refine them further.

You never know what the future holds. Maybe that is a possibility :)

Chris

[Lisasview]

Good morning from Spain..
I also have my short stories..all of them..even the one I wrote when I was 10 years old..

[Davidgeo]

Hope is a good title for this.

Only when we let go of the socially manufactured version of ourselves can we really see what is/was really there. There is freedom in that.

I used to be in the military, and only the "no bullshit" style of soldiering really worked when it got hard. Lies only made things harder than they had to be in the best case or got people killed in the worst case.

This also reminds me of a line from a book called fight club by a fellow named chuck palahniuk, "it is only when we lose everything that we are free to do anything". Maybe a little over the top but I think it still relates to this poem as I read it.

[Lisasview]

Thank you for your great review Dav!!
I really appreciate the reference to Fight Club.. which I never read...This shows that you really connected with my poem. and I do appreciate that.
I am so new to submitting and getting review on my Poems and Sonnets is wonderful.
I plan on reading your poems today.. If you have time perhaps you might like to read the other couple I submitted..

[Davidgeo]

I'm definitely going to read more of you.

If you don't want to read the book you can always watch the movie. Fight Club is, quality entertainment in all it's forms.

[Davidgeo]

And try and remember not to take reviews very seriously, to the good or to the bad. You're writing exists as you like it whether people like it or not. It's really up to you what's it's quality is or is not.

[Davidgeo]

(excuse the spelling and grammar errors in that last response, I'm kind of in hurry)

[Lisasview]

Reading your comments made me smile..
I think I did see Fight Club..but that was awhile ago.. I will go back to see it again .. Thank you, Lisa

[jacob erin-cilberto]

or at least put off the fear...hope is a bit tricky these days.
But we can make each day count...the best we can do.
j.

[Lisasview]

Funny that I am now going through all my poems and making sure that I responded to ever review and although I think I have responded to you I found a poem where i neglected to respond to your kind words... I think it was because I had just started posting my work and did not understand how the system worked... So I am sending you a big thank you now Jacob..
Lisa, going through my work..

[Carlos Lorenzo Estrada]

I was touched by these words of yours because they resonate with truth. There comes a point in life one has to let go of the lies which can drag you down and keep you from evolving into a better person. Thank you for sharing your poem with us.

[Lisasview]

Thank you so much for your review Carlos...
Although I am really busy working on my new Sonnet I have been looking through the poems I wrote many years ago..some were unfinished... like this one. I added the last two lines yesterday..Lisa