hope. fleeting as snow in April sunshine. hope. impaled on shards of splintered heart. hope. shuttered and abandoned house.
hope. shimmers like dragonfly wings. hope. glitters like window prism. hope. flies like angel’s wings. hope. dreams like believing.
hope. once held back darkness. hope. once held back tears. hold. once held back sorrow. hope. once held back fear. hope. once.
hope. is laughter. hope. is love. hope. is embracing. hope. is compassion. hope. is forward. hope. is friendship. hope. is.
then. give. me hope. give. me promise. give. me sunshine. give. me light. give. me dreaming. give. me life. give. me.
just. grant. me your hand. grant. me your heart. grant. me your spirit. grant. me your soul. grant. me your love. grant. me.
Texted for mlmm writing prompt sms 08.01.17 being, I hope, prosetry in 6 text messages. (each line is less than 140 characters)
Lorraine's frilly freudian slip 
January 9, 2017 at 12:32 pm
Those islands in Pacific are huge! We
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January 9, 2017 at 3:28 am
The repetition is effective, Lorraine, and conveys a sense of desperation, which is reflected in that wonderful line ‘…hope. impaled on shards of splintered heart. hope. shuttered and abandoned house’, which slowly develops into the hope that ‘shimmers like dragonfly wings’, through to the imperatives at the end, ‘give me hope’.
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January 9, 2017 at 12:28 am
Impaling on shards of a broken heart! Now that’s good. Great line. I like the repetition too. 😀
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January 9, 2017 at 12:41 am
Thanks muchly. :)
Rapid cycling in the Bipolarsphere
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January 9, 2017 at 12:48 am
As long as it’s not recycling through the manic phases.
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January 9, 2017 at 2:37 am
Oh, those too. I’m very good at recycling bottles and my mania
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January 9, 2017 at 9:00 am
We live in a place that doesn’t use recycling bins. Some say they say recycle but that’s a lot to go through
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January 9, 2017 at 10:12 am
Recycle at all costs of time and energy. Bins be damned — create your own then haul them to the recycling centre! This is a warning from a recycling nutbar who has been doing it since it was born.
My mother’s town went total recycling and home compost bin pickup when they realized the town dump was getting full fast.
The compost is resold at $1.00 a big bag. They started before most places were even taking paper or plastic bottles. So, I’m rather rabid about it. Maybe it’s one of my manic phases?
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January 9, 2017 at 11:52 am
I prefer to have the things recycled. I take aluminum cans to clubhouse for their fund. I’m used to churches and schools taking in paper. But the plastic bottles are the biggest issue. They are tons of petroleum in production of them.
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January 9, 2017 at 11:56 am
We use water filters and don’t buy in plastic containers if we can help it. Packaging is outrageous. So much isn’t recyclable. Besides what goes into the making of the plastic. There are islands of floating plastic in the oceans.
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January 8, 2017 at 3:30 pm
I really love how you approached the prompt. It also reads like a very modern “hope is a thing with feathers” and I love that. I love that you included so many versions. It reminds me how sometimes, all it takes is something the length of a text to turn our day around.
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January 8, 2017 at 9:34 pm
As I said, I don’t text much, and tend to text in full sentences as if I’ve emailing or writing. When I can get my fingers working right on the stylus I used to peck out the messages.
I played with stories, but decided to try a kind of poetic exchange, keeping to the character limit for each line.
I love the varied responses you received. People took well to this prompt.
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January 8, 2017 at 12:02 pm
I love everything about this – the composition, the words, the message. Delightful.
Click to visit Keith’s Ramblings!
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January 8, 2017 at 1:19 pm
Thank you Keith — I will visit, but as I remember I have difficulties leaving comments on your posts — I will come back here to comment.
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January 8, 2017 at 10:18 am
It’s interesting how different people’s inspiration from the same photo can be.
That was a fascinating piece of writing :-)
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January 8, 2017 at 2:27 pm
Thanks muchly :) I am always amazed at the variety of responses drawn out by prompts. Sometimes folks may follow the same road for awhile, but end up taking different off ramps. (Sorry, bad analogy.)
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January 8, 2017 at 4:43 pm
No I actually like it. It’s very true 😉.
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