Imagination
Date written: 26th July, 2025
Contest: Three Options in I Poetry
Sponsor: Constance La France
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
— Muhammad Ali
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Imagination lends me its safe wings,
So I can soar toward futures I choose,
To fill my life with hopes and precious things;
Though striking gold is never a mere cruise,
Neither are lily-livered crowned as kings.
Sweat would streak my face and my skin would bruise,
My legs may throb and swell with insects' stings,
It's for my future that I pay the dues —
I'll patch my hurts with plasters and with slings,
On great hopes, my imagination clings.
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