On Wings of Hope

Nature’s own utterances were provocative Paradoxes no distress Rightly used and indispensable The concentrated fire of summer Sets alight hearts bestirred To render words once inflammatory Now neutralized and exiled forth

Four seasons cycle yearly lots With weather that sometimes causes ill To teach that endless goodness without edge Can lead to soul and heart abused

So winter’s chill and crystal ice Fills need of sternness, rule and boundary Steeling backbone with flint chipped sharp To cut away falsehood and manipulative avarice

For false spring brings unnatural hope Which can fool a heart into shedding protective sheath Allowing the breath of warmth filled air To fill its cavities til trust ensues Then turns to frozen snow filled fate

Surprise then shock at betrayal’s hard fist Knocking air from diaphragm in visible pain The tears cry out like a soaking rain Falling from the thorn filled rosebuds At love’s closed door

Yet if focus on budded beauty be The pain will pass though not without struggle Like blossoms blooming amidst knife-sharp defense Careful but not closed off from the world

If never to bloom what will life hold for them And for those destined to grasp them glorious In sunlight passed through stained glass splendor When learned the lesson of temperance born On wings of hope that soar beyond despair

Response to Promposity Prompt Trascendentalism (see more below)

Natalie Frank has had her poetry featured in several anthologies including Untimely Frost. Her fiction has been published in Haunted Waters Press, Weirdbook Magazine, Siren’s Call Publications, Lycan Valley Press and Zero Fiction among others. Her collection of poetry, Disguised I Breathe, In Love I Hold, can be found on Amazon under her pen name, Taye Carrol

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