ALS NaPoWriMo 2025 Day 3 Prompt: “A stone of hope can cause the mountain of despair to fall.”

 

I am starting my poem with the words of Paulo Coelho:

 

“It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”

 

Poem: Wings of Hope

 

“It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting,”

Dreams that are sown in the soil of hope,

No matter it’s a desert or prairie.

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In the garden of my life, I’d sown a motley of flowers,

Tending to them with love and care each day,

In the hope that their fragrance will enliven my space

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But the blizzard of time blew away my yield,

Devastated and distressed, I lay in the dungeons of darkness,

Aghast at the paradox that life had put me in

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I scoured for my dreams in the vast barren land,

I found its roots deep in the soil,

The soil of hope had tenderly held onto my dreams

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The patronage of hope energized my spirit,

The promise of a new dawn that hope had instilled,

And I found myself quilling new dreams

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Dreams that became possible with a pebble of hope,

The pebble that crushed the mountain of despair,

And my dreams soar now on the wings of hope.

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©Vandana Bhasin

03.04.2025