Hope Springs
The voice reached back into a past
where we had birthed our hopes.
A late night call from a friend no more.
He wanted to talk.
We had nothing to say,
so we said it again and again.
Where did your hopes take you, he asked.
Not where they promised, I said.
Mine died slowly like a departing dirge.
His left him hoping on his children’s children.
We yearned to return to our fragmented memories
where life was endlessly earnest,
where friendships started to die,
and promises made to be broken.
It’s hard to keep new hopes alive,
when the old ones never arrived.
©Brian Cummings
About this poem
I wrote this poem after a late night call from a childhood friend
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Written on April 21, 2022
Submitted by Briancummingssr on April 21, 2022
Modified on March 31, 2023
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| Scheme | XX XX XX XX XA XX XA XX |
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| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 591 |
| Words | 129 |
| Stanzas | 8 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
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