Hope Family Poems

Resolutions each January I feel I must do.                 ...

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I navigate my computer,                     ...

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Singing birds emerging.
Pretty flowers are blooming.
Rabbits are hopping.
In spring things start living.
Nests of eggs are cracking.
Gardens are now growing.

Written Date: 1/21/2020...

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No more poetry,
say it's not so.
How do I live not writing any more, 
no more words and stories to express.
No more rhymes,
to pass my time.
How...

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All the birthday boys,                     ...

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Like a fairy caught in fire 
Like a bird flying with no Air
Like a butterfly set on pyre 
Like a daffodil caught in a tyre
Like...

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I wish for my daughter
The greatest capacity for love.
I wish that she finds strength
Most can only dream of
I hope that she loves
With reckless abandon
Sharing faith...

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Rewind
By Julia Shaw

At seventy-two my life has been so very fine,
That I'd like to push a button and just rewind.
I'd go back to my wedding...

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For Both, a Second Chance


“So tell me…what’s adopting like? Seems a little risky - picking out your children from the local lost and found! 
Suppose...

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You call her Love
I call her life 
You call her wish 
I call her Hope
You call her Moon 
I call her Sky
You call her Happiness...

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In Between

Somewhere in my thoughts today 
I sit and wonder and I pray!
I pray for a little girl I met so innocent and warm,
I hope...

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Greetings to each of you my dearly beloved brothers and sisters. Please read these seventeen blessings rendered for you in God's grace:

I. May God’s love...

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Priorities in the Desk Drawer

Days are less important, 
moments have taken on a whole...
new, meaning. 
The shadow of the last rays, 
are savored, 
cherished, 
and...

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With the family visiting again this holiday..as they have so many times before
It was once again time to revisit…the back of our old closet door.

On...

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Solemn

As I walk alone, 
the path before me, 
long and full of pain, 
my thoughts are only on you. 
You went forward, 
when others ran...

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Time to pull out the gift wrap,
Bring out the ribbons and crafts.
Red, yellow, green and blue,
Christmas time is here for you.

Santa’s sleigh and reindeer are...

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Andy!

          -Aaron!
          -Aloha!

Aloha!
All
A-ok?

    ...

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I was saddened to hear the passing of our beloved sister Adele,
Now that she has gone home to the Lord.

She will be remembered by her...

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As I watched our daughter watch her son graduate from college yesterday…
as our three generations aligned
I wondered if she was thinking what I once did…
If...

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Purple Heart

It's what freedom cost,
Yet another family's lost.

Traces of a long forgotten war,
Willing participants to their own accord.

A coffin's flag to a son who gave...

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