Ice Parry
Grant Hope 226
https://www.granthope.net/p/ice-parry
https://youtu.be/pzxGQfqTIAk

When the chips are down
the stakes are high
the difference between losing and winning comes to a point
...

Mother Nature Myth
Grant Hope 214
https://granthope.substack.com/p/mother-nature-myth
https://youtu.be/9JVNt1BdQDM

Wonderfully hypnotic isn’t she?
There are so many refracting layers to her world
Can you see past the layers and elegant pageantry
...

From The Other Side of The Wide Lengthy Sea
Grant Hope 213
https://granthope.substack.com/p/from-the-other-side-of-the-wide-lengthy
https://youtu.be/4Yx5O6MryfQ

I can feel him tenderly calling
from across the wide lengthy sea
wondering with yearning how he is when he thinks about me
...

Filling Holes
Grant Hope 212
https://granthope.substack.com/p/filling-holes
https://youtu.be/Y023l_s0MWc

Violence is the answer some might say
to get above water
fighting for what is yours
for your turf
...

The Mission: Hit The Big Score
Grant Hope 211
https://granthope.substack.com/p/the-mission-hit-the-big-score
https://youtu.be/wkpCirDGpwc

Man, it’s a big world out there
two guys look over the skyline of their city
talking about if they can get out
...

Thankful in Petition
Grant Hope 207
https://www.granthope.net/p/thankful-in-petition
https://youtu.be/Chza_eyxrTk

I can see my face reflected in my hands when I pray honestly
With thanksgiving I let my request be made to the God whose peace surpasses all understanding
...

Senses of Night
Grant Hope 194
https://www.granthope.net/p/senses-of-night
https://youtu.be/MlukKyB_Zf0

The passage of time is different when dusk has died
the trees are blacker than shadow and can only be seen under the cloudy haze of the moon
it’s like there is a lady playing with father time’s hourglass
letting the sands leak out so that earth’s natural satellite can have its own high noon
…

The Final Fill
Grant Hope 177
https://www.granthope.net/p/the-final-fill
https://youtu.be/UlhQKtbR8BA

Hugs For Life
Grant Hope 157
https://www.granthope.net/p/hugs-for-life
https://youtu.be/g82H5PPIO8E

Ever since we were pieces of twine
I remember my sister’s hugs
she remembers mine
...

You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.

-Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Frozen Fall
Grant Hope 131
https://youtube.com/shorts/71CmgOQe4UQ
https://www.granthope.net/p/frozen-fall

Preview:
The forest of fall
gives way to winter’s wall
white and frozen still
The kaleidoscopic spectrum of the season of multicolored fading
passes on to biting bony chill

I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.
-Thomas Hood

The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon.
-Jean Ingelow

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
-Bertolt Brecht

Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.
-Derek Walcott

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For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.
-John Greenleaf Whittier