Hope Be With You | World Poetry Day
Hope in a Sonnet
For all those who feel forgotten
He told her, “Where there’s hope, there is a way.” She thought it kind of stupid at the time, but he implored her to pray every day, because the answer will come in a rhyme.
She felt there wasn’t any hope for her Everything she had tried had turned to naught Her words were invisible to the world No one would listen to what she’d been taught
She decided she had nothing to lose, so she hoped and she prayed with all her heart that one day soon she would walk in their shoes and her words would be considered their art
“Dear Lord,” she prayed, “Tell me how will I cope?” He said, “Write them a sonnet about hope.”
© Carolyn Hastings 2021
‘All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.’ Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870)
Thank you to Sahil Patel for initiating the ‘Hope’ poetry challenge. Sahil has timed the challenge to coincide with World Poetry Day on Sunday March 21st.
Here is Sahil’s poem, Hope, and details about the challenge -
Sahil has asked that each contributor to the challenge reach out and invite other poets on Medium to bring forth their words of hope. In the spirit of hope, kindness and family I would like to call upon our wonderful Paper Poetry community of writers to contribute. By tagging a few of you here, I’m ‘hoping’ the ball will start rolling, and turn into an all-inclusive sphere of communal hope. 😊 💞
It doesn’t matter if you’ve already contributed to the prompt in another publication. You are more than welcome to submit a new piece here at Paper Poetry. In fact, feel free to write as often and as much as you like on the topic. There is, after all, never enough hope. 😊 💖
Suntonu Bhadra | Indubala Kachhawa | James G Brennan | Katie Michaelson | Amy Knight | Megan Nicole Morgan | Penofgold | Sasha kitty | Lee Ameka | Charlene Marron | Taylor Haught | David Rudder | Chloe Paulina Hawes | Mia Verita | K. Barrett | Dr. Preeti Singh | Jeff Langley | Amy Jasek | Thalia Dunn | Jenine Bsharah Baines | Dana Sanford | Niaby | Era Garg | Viraji Ogodapola | Marcus | Francine Fallara | Amy Marley | Leroy Welwood Jones | Lucy Dan 蛋小姐 (she/her/她) | R Tsambounieri Talarantas | Josie Elbiry | Kiera McCoard | Javier Ortega-Araiza | Obinna Uruakpa | Priyanka Srivastava | Angelina Der Arakelian |….and new writers to our publication are always most welcome (go here to find out more about our submission guidelines). 🙏 ✨
Hope be with you,
Paper Poetry editors Suntonu Bhadra | Indubala Kachhawa | Carolyn Hastings
