Name: Year Ahead
Duration: P00H01M04S
Description: In this poem I imagine hope as a winged creature, after Emily Dickinson who said "hope is the thing with feathers." I also imagine hope as an animal who may have been previously injured, panting and fighting for their life, but is still here, still breathing. The final lines of the poem describe the audacity of hope to continue to be here, in all of its beauty, despite the hardship.

Year Ahead

from New Year by E.L.Dan and Sunflower Summit

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In this poem I imagine hope as a winged creature, after Emily Dickinson who said "hope is the thing with feathers." I also imagine hope as an animal who may have been previously injured, panting and fighting for their life, but is still here, still breathing. The final lines of the poem describe the audacity of hope to continue to be here, in all of its beauty, despite the hardship.

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What within you will take flight this year?
What winged creature will emerge from your body like a phoenix?
What hope lies beneath your doubt like a panting animal?
What solace has always been yours to lean into?
What is waiting to fill you with what you were sure went down with the ship but here it is, standing before you in all of its stunning audacity: the wonder, the warmth, the possibility that there is more to this life than just the ache of living.