Poets Salon: “Hope”

POETS SALON

– 11/11/20

Hosted by Kath Abela Wilson

finally out of the dark
a ray of blue
hope
our world awoke to the sound
of much needed rain

~ Kath Abela

Jacaranda painting by Jackie Chou

Jackie Chou

Jacaranda

All my life, I have coped with negative emotions through creativity. I wrote poems and made collages through my parents’ deaths and my own personal struggles. Now, in difficult times, I find solace in a painting I did of a jacaranda tree. I look at its trunk for strength and its lavender flowers for hope.

painting
a jacaranda tree
with steady strokes
the hurt of the world
lifts from my shoulders

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“Where there’s life there’s hope,” by Pat Geyer

Pat Geyer

green
of leaves
pink
of buds…
love of each as equals

our lives
intermingle
whether in rain or shine…
he said “patience”
as if one, we listened

the world yet can hope…
spinning a prayer wheel
designs our faith
in an unexpected gift
of melodic mantra songs

my mom’s rose bush
still blooms fairy pink…
i can hear her words
“where there’s life
there’s hope”

fulfilling a dream
her dowry boxed in
a hope chest
with all the hopes and dreams
of a new norm

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“Spinning a prayer wheel” by Pat Geyer

Hope: Quotes and Credits

Jackie Chou is a poet who believes in romance, second chances, and thriving on hope, no matter how small it may seem. Her work has been published locally and internationally, in Akitsu Quarterly, Atlas Poetica, bottle rockets, the cherita journal, failed haiku, Frameless Sky, Frogpond, Haiku Dialogue, red lights tanka journal, Ribbons, Wales Haiku Journal, and others.

Living in the new norm during this Autumn of new hopes and dreams, Pat Geyer lives in East Brunswick, NJ, USA. Her home is surrounded by the parks and lakes where she finds her inspiration in Nature. Published in several journals, she’s an amateur photographer and poet.

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“Fulfilling a dream” by Pat Geyer

Send short poems, haiku, senryu, tanka, cherita haibun, tanka prose, short prose poems, etc., or your own unique approach, to Kath Abela by Facebook message or click here to email her directly. We can feature your work again after five months. Multiple Submissions can be saved to appear later:

1. Send a short bio, comments on the theme.
2. Send photos or artwork by you, if possible.
3. No attachments except photos.

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