Hope

Keep it alive

As long as love lives
There will be hope - and know this
Love will never die

Reviews

[Beccy]

It might be said that love is an overused word; 'love the look of that dress,' 'love chocolate,' etc, etc.

But that is perhaps not to understand love for what it is; rather than simply a word to describe something that is quite impossible to quantify.

Love must indeed never die, it cannot, for without it, our species would cease to exist.

Beccy.

[Tony Jordan]

Very well put Beccy.
Hi...I hope Charlie and you are well...
Thank you my friend
:)

[MsJewel]

Simply beautiful! :) Julie

[Tony Jordan]

Very kind Julie.
I appreciate your words.
Thank you
:)

[Poetic License]

Simple and beautiful. Well said.

[Tony Jordan]

I am usually wayyy more verbose.
I appreciate your encouraging words PL
:)

[Lady Glitter]

Tony, I like the way that you put it in this poem. Very short, crisp, to the point but loving too. Of course, hope will never die either, as long as it depends on love for it's existence.

BTW, I like your onion smile :) Thanks for reviewing my poem "Black Gossamer & Legs".

[Tony Jordan]

'Black Gossamer & Legs' is a fantastic read.
Thank you Lady Glitter
:)

[h d e rushin]

have you ever seen a mule Tony? My grandpa use to have a few on the farm he sharecropped in Georgia a few decades ago...They were crossbred to be patient and un-bothered by snakes and mud. Granddad use to tell me that they pulled the plow, walked thru the muddy fields and trampled snakes because they loved it. Perhaps we humans are born with this same congenital truth; that we are here to both love and hope out loud. And that that truth about us will never die......beautiful song to wake up to my friend.....dana

[Tony Jordan]

Not a mule. I've seen only donkeys.
I watched a movie today 'Jackie' (JFK's wife)- it's supposed to be a verbatim type of biog and in it the eponymous first lady asks a priest 'what is the point (of Life)' and he told her (paraphrasing here) he thought people are of two sorts - one group are looking for the meaning of life and another have realised their isn't one- in which case they kill themselves or live on with that knowledge !! I thought of that when you related the mule story. Excellent - thank you.
:))

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Your senryu gives you away as the eternal optimist Tony but generically spot on!

[Tony Jordan]

I hold up my hands. Tis me...
Thank you my friend
:)

[John Alexander McFadyen]

One simply has to remain optimistic in MK; doesn't one? lol

[Tony Jordan]

It's getting harder - but it's our duty
The lunatics have taken over the asylum - as Terry Hall sings it...

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Hey that's my bloody asylum!

[Tony Jordan]

Hahah - true...true
We all took our eye off the ball John. Perhaps we can wrestle back control before Mr Trump and Mr. Jong Il fancy a tussle !

[emmajoy]

Hope and love seem to walk the aisle together.. or elsewhere.. if we're fortunate, lucky or call it what you will. Brief, sweetly worded poem..

[Tony Jordan]

Eternal pardners in the mortal hoedown ...
Thanks (always) Em.
:)

[Jimmy Yetts]

I've lived--for years--both decidedly loveless and seemingly faithless.
But, without hope, the next breath was always in doubt.
While love never dies, our connection to it is sometimes temporarily lost.
Excellent bit of work, Tony!

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Short, clear, smooth and very true and very very and very beautiful

[aLittlePain]

That's a very nice message TJ. R x

[Tiana]

I couldn't agree with you more, Tony. Great poem!