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A Song Of Despair

by Pablo Neruda

The memory of you emerges from the night around me.
The river mingles its stubborn lament with the sea.

Deserted like the wharves at dawn.
It is the hour of departure, oh deserted one!

Cold flower heads are raining over my heart.
Oh pit of debris, fierce cave of the shipwrecked.

In you the wars and the flights accumulated.

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To A Primrose

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The first seen in the season

Nitens et roboris expers
Turget et insolida est: et spe delectat.
- Ovid, Metam. .

Thy smiles I note, sweet early Flower,
That peeping from thy rustic bower
The festive news to earth dost bring,
A fragrant messenger of Spring.

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The Tide Rushing Beneath my Feet

by Megan Nguyen

One drop hits the ocean,
The ripple fades like a beauty with age,
Fat drops hit the sea,
One drop only a teaspoon
But what is an ocean
But billions of droplets?

He says to me, “the world won’t change
It’s old and stuck in its ways,
Its vicious and cruel.

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A Romantic Night

by Daniel Chapman

You enter and settle in, eyes wandering, curious, unsure.
I smile and whisper, don't be afraid—
tonight was designed for you.
Hours folded into this moment:
low music humming like a promise,
wine breathing in crystal,
candles teaching the shadows how to dance.

We taste, we sip, we laugh—only the prelude.
Then I'm lost in your eyes,

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Utopia

by Nafisa Baheranwala

Where might is not always right
And people can exist without fright
Where the poor have at least daily bread
And the under nourished are properly fed
Where plastic is not thrown in lakes and streams
Where people have a chance to fulfil their dreams
Where each man is treated in an equal way
And caste does not hold full sway
Where education is free for one and all
And medication freely available on call

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Recent Hope Poems

A DREAM

by Subarna Chakraborty

A dream in the morning,
They say, comes true.
A dream of you
I went through.
I saw you — a little vague, a little shy,
Perhaps it was me, I don't know why.
You stood still,
Your wide eyes met mine.
Can I call it luck?
Or fate, or destiny?

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Don't Ask

by Kara Prince

I didn’t read for book club this week,
But I am glad I went.
They asked if there were any questions I was glad I didn’t know the answer to.
I have no idea what that had to do with the reading,
But as I walked home, I wondered if the blue hybrid with a fender sleeve would be waiting for me.
For six blocks, you could’ve come back to me,
Over four turns, three rights and a left,
My heart had hope, and my mind thought only of forgiveness.
My twelve-minute fantasy ended with an answer,
One I wish I didn’t have.

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Spring

by Anna Wakefield

Ashes to ashes, and dust to dust,
The end of all we knew.
The death of all the love and trust,
To be reborn anew.

Spring, rebirth, a phoenix,
All symbols we have seen.
One step forward, not a trick
Fleeing from where I’ve been.

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The Sunshine

by Somali Mukherjee

Let the sunshine come
And illuminate each life,
With kindness and peace.

THE TOUGHEST CALL

by Leone Takudzwa Maera

she envied just one flight
To go back to her other fight
To be an engineer of some sought
That was only her thought
Yet she made the toughest call
Adriana was her name
For a moment its lame
But it can only be tamed
Inside the heart locked and jammed
All because of the toughest call.

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