Tag: Hope

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Wishing all days could start and end just like this

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Find Finola’s Diamond!

Hundreds of you visit this blog every week. Finola's story breaks my heart. Could anyone going through the Toronto Island Airport this week please just do a sweep of it and look for her engagement ring diamond? I know it's slightly crazy to hold out hope here, but 'hope is the thing with feathers/ that …

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Poet Claudia Schönfeld

Sakura you feed me on raw fish when our world’s upside down, chaos around, people drown, small as bugs in the sink while forces of nature grow tall and blossoming cherries bleed, spilling red, white - hopes like vomit on shaking ropes, will they hold? sing, sing sakura ‘cos spring is just ‘round the corner …

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Poet Mark Stratton

Poem for Japan The music of children playing A smile warms my face Vibrant blues stretch for Deepening reds on arms Cardinal hiding in a bush Flew there 'pon approach Crows circling high above Lazing through the summer sky Cool of the evening Ending a summers day Mark Stratton is the editor of Cats With …

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Leaping Peacefully, Eternally

Just when I thought this contest couldn't be any more fun or get any better--it just did. Two more entries arrived in my inbox this weekend, and they're from a friend I've never met in my home town of Ottawa, Ontario! Yay, Ottawa! Writes artist Ieneke Jansen, "I am a self-taught artist who was born …

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