Tag: Hope

Hope, the Inward Anchor and Freedom, the Outward Horizon

Hope and freedom are among the most enduring human values, shaping how individuals persevere through difficulty and how they imagine the possibilities before them. In literature, these values are often portrayed not as abstract ideals but as lived experiences captured in image and metaphor. Through the constancy of hope within the soul, Emily Dickinson in…

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With Hope I Face Winter’s Frown

On days like this
When masked in a frown
All day long indoors she remains
Stepping out but briefly for a peek
A rare fleeting stroll in the chilly wintry air
Let it to me be granted
That out in the frigidity engulfed
She finds and against me rubs
Or at a window I be seated
For her improbable winter smile in wait
For with that radiant beaming smile
The sun’s ebullience makes the day whole

Perpetual Death

Glimmers of hope
Extinguished
And reignited
Only to be doused
Dying dreams rekindled
Then smothered
Again…
And again…
And again
In the meeting between
Callousness and ingenuousness
Rendering living lifeless
Perpetual death!