Fire of Hope | Original Poetry

in #poetry5 years ago (edited)

asia-17553_1920.jpg

Would you do something
for the weary traveller
trudging — 
head down — 
up the shadow-shrouded hill?

Light a few — 
no, thousands of — 
red paper lanterns
with gold trimmings
along the meandering trail:
exhort him to keep his eyes
fixed upon the little flickering flame,
every step of the way.

If he sees the flickering fire of despair
devouring the paper lanterns which encase it,
an apocalyptic forest fire
will break out,
just as he thought.

But if he sees the flickering fire of hope
fuelling the beauty of the paper lanterns
as a good-fortuned orb,
he will find his way home to joy,
just as he thought.

© Joey Lim

Power House Creatives Logos FINAL.png

I hope this poem I wrote will encourage someone out there who are weary and discouraged in life.

Never give up and never stop believing! <3

EJ Lo.png

PHC-Footer-05.gif

Sort:  

@joeylim,

Lovely theme for a poem and the red paper lantern metaphor is perfect: A duality of essence.

Nice job.

Quill

@quillfire Thank you for your kind words! ((:

Ironically, it was one of the first few times I used metaphors from Asian culture.

Hi @joeylim!

Your post was upvoted by @steem-ua, new Steem dApp, using UserAuthority for algorithmic post curation!
Your UA account score is currently 2.938 which ranks you at #10935 across all Steem accounts.
Your rank has dropped 15 places in the last three days (old rank 10920).

In our last Algorithmic Curation Round, consisting of 155 contributions, your post is ranked at #111.

Evaluation of your UA score:
  • Only a few people are following you, try to convince more people with good work.
  • You have already convinced some users to vote for your post, keep trying!
  • You have already shown user engagement, try to improve it further.

Feel free to join our @steem-ua Discord server

Coin Marketplace

STEEM 0.35
TRX 0.12
JST 0.040
BTC 70733.96
ETH 3563.16
USDT 1.00
SBD 4.76