Poetry Pals - Week 21 - Poems That Simplify the Complex

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Hello my wonderful poetry people,

This week over at

Poetry Pals

we had another guest writer, Hannah Napier Rosenberg from

HannahRoWrites

: I’m not going into great detail this week (with apologies to Hannah) but I’m shattered.

Your writing prompt for this week:

I would invite you to think about a complex topic, feeling, emotion, thought that you could simplify in a poem.

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Photo by Marek Piwnicki on Unsplash

Hope

Oh, I want to feel hope.
That strange joy bubbling in me,
Ringing in my ears
Fluttering in my chest
Oh, I want to feel it
But I daren’t; I can’t; I mustn’t.
The ‘what if’s haunt me
Drag me down.
I’m scared to feel her.
Oh, I want to feel hope.

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We need hope so much in this world, for me, for Gaza, for the climate, for us all. And it’s so difficult to hold onto it when it all seems hopeless. At times I just want to howl and I push away those feeling of hope; they seem so slippery.

Tell me what you think. I’d love to know and get some feedback.

Till next time, peeps.

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