Tag Archives: hope

Radical Hope, Love’s Secret Discipline

By Robin Bates | Published: March 30, 2024

Two poems for Easter on the power of love over death.

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The Green Power of Imagining

By Robin Bates | Published: March 10, 2024

In “Secret Garden,” healing begins with imagining a hopeful future. It’s a lesson for dealing with our environmental challenges.

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Earth-Hearted Hope for Dark Times

By Robin Bates | Published: March 6, 2024

How to maintain hope in the face of catastrophic climate change? Hope is key, as Emily Dickinson and John Muir understood.

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Poetry Helps Balance Realism & Hope

By Robin Bates | Published: June 21, 2022

Poetry not only calls out society’s ills but offers us hope.

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Song of Hope: The Night Cloud Is Hueing

By Robin Bates | Published: March 15, 2021

With the passage of the Covid relief bill and increased vaccinations, Hardy’s “Song for Hope” seems appropriate.

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Can We Love the Morning Again?

By Robin Bates | Published: January 16, 2021

In this poem Levertov talks about the difficulties of loving the morning again after a night of horrors.

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Share Hope and Watch It Grow

By Robin Bates | Published: January 1, 2019

New Year’s Day Former colleague Dana Greene alerted me to this luminescent New Year’s poem by Denise Levertov. In it, the poet compares hope to a small crystal and a cluster of irises. When Emily Dickinson describes hope as “the thing with feathers that perches in the soul,” she focuses on the individual. Hope comes […]

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Read This Poem To Feel Better

By Robin Bates | Published: November 15, 2018

Sheenagh Pugh’s “Sometimes” is a good poem to read if you’re feeling down.

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Three Poems for Surviving Trump

By Robin Bates | Published: October 17, 2017

Hope is needed in the face to emotional exhaustion over Trumpism. Here are three poems about finding hope in dark times.

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