Hope is a dance with chance,
flashing its cobalt emerging,
vibrating your heart’s feathers.
With a wink and a song,
you’re hooked.
It’s clear.
Grab on and align your spirit
as you grind out the contrast
between want and do,
connecting the dots
that spill across life’s vibrant print.
Brenda Warren 2012
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So beautiful and well-thought-out, Brenda! I love the feel, the hope that pours out of it. Very well done, and a very good use of the word “cobalt,” which gave me such a hard time!
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Love the last two lines, Brenda…sometimes the “dots” in life seem random…but they do connect.
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I very much like how you grab the reader from the get-go and don’t let go all the way through – a nice take on these somewhat challenging words (or at least, I found them so) Nicely done Brenda – thanks for stopping by the Poet Treehouse already; I appreciate it
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You reminded me – when I started I thought I would do something the incorporated connecting the dots… I forgot about it until reading your wonderful piece!
“Hope is a dance with chance,flashing its cobalt emerging,vibrating your heart’s feathers.With a wink and a song,” and you are leading the way. Thanks Brenda!
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Brilliant, wonderful, excellent poem in response to the wordl.
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This surely steps in a positive direction, Brenda. Life in a nutshell: a dance with chance!
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Brenda, your first stanza hooked me. Got over your hangover I reckon. 🙂
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Several wonderful images in this, caught between want and do, vibrating heart’s feathers. I liked this week’s words and you did them justice.
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Like the feathery heart! Nice image.
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The opening line was a great ‘hook’, like the contrast between want and do as well, pretty much describes where I am in life right now.
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Thanks, Mark. I’m glad the piece speaks to you. Yeah…want and do…sometimes it’s easier to sit around.
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Dots and dancing made me think of the fast paced Polka…not much time for alignment when you are in constant motion (for a celebration I am sure)! I can hear an accordion in my mind! A joyful piece out of this weeks Wordles! Thanks m’dear.
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Thanks, Jules. I love an accordian, always have. LoL
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Strong message here, Brenda! You make it look so easy (using this week’s words).
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Thank you, Laurie. This is where they took me…. I wanted something more, but wound up liking this….you know you start and write, and think, eh….could be better. Well that was this, but it grew on me. 🙂
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I loved “the contrast / between want and do”! Well-worded.
And thanks for the nice wordle, Brenda!
Best, M.
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Thank you for playing along, Mariya.
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I like the tone you chanced to dance with in this piece. And I smiled when I saw that you had brought hope too, to the table.
Elizabeth
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I know, Elizabeth! It’s a pleasure to be on the same flow with you. 🙂
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Brenda, “grab on and align your spirit” has the feel of a mantra to me – and I like where that stanza goes – “the contrast / between want and do”.
Richard
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Thanks, Richard. It’s the doing that brings hope’s fruition.
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Brenda, I love “vibrating your heart’s feathers”. Nice concise piece, not a wasted word here.
Pamela
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Thank you, Pamela. Happy Sunday.
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Your poetry musical, uplifting.
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Yes, I like the flow! It’s fun to read.
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Thank you, Annell.
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Great wordle Brenda. I love the hope and the dance with chance and… hope I never forget to do either 🙂
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I’m with you there, Bren!
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Neat and tight.
(and I’m hooked on the wordles. just flick a few well-feathered words in my direction. gulp)
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🙂
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All that they say above, but the image that I return to is ‘your heart’s feathers’.
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I like it, too, Margo. I wonder if it rose from Dickinson’s piece….hope is a thing with feathers… feathery hearts, they exist…hearts flutter — it’s a fun image
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“Connecting the dots that spill across life’s vibrant print,” is wonderful, Brenda. This was a great selection of words. I loved cobalt. And I’m loving The Whirl more than ever!
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I love The Whirl, too, Marianne. It keeps us together all year, as a lull between NaPo storms. LoL
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A delightful Wordle, Brenda. I liked specially “the contrast between want and do,”
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Thanks, Viv. I liked that bit, too, when it came.
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Good wordling, Brenda. I like the idea of connecting the dots that appear across life’s vibrant print. And yes, a dance with chance — we all do it, with differing results. The luck of the draw!
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Thank you, Mary…yes, the luck of the draw. I’m hoping for a great end to my school year. It feels like the luck of the draw. All we can do is hope and dance.
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