Hope Lives

The tree
Is evergreen
Bent slightly by the wind
Standing tall near the mountain peak
It lives

The boy
Just six years old
Gazes toward the sky
Solemn about his lost balloon
He lives

Our Love
Grows endlessly
Nourished by attention
Far beyond boundary waters
Love lives

Our Hope
Everlasting
Orchestrated by grace
Enriched by strong human kindness
Hope lives

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Linked to Vanquished Hope, a palinode poem in rebuttal to the sentiment expressed in this poem.

This poem, a quartet of cinquains, is linked to Linda Kruschke’s Paint Chip Poetry Challenge Prompt #50. The theme poem title is “From Grace Comes Hope” , a quintet of cinquains. The paint chip words and phrases you have to work with are evergreen, fern, lost balloon, bento box, gargoyle, mountain peak, and Boundary Waters..