Blog of the Week ~ Hope Whispers

Kids, today we are thrilled to feature a long-time member of the Poets United community since its beginnings in 2010: Carrie Burtt, found at Hope Whispers. 

Carrie can be found writing to a variety of prompt sites through the week. She writes with a great deal of life wisdom and philosophy....from the benefits of letting go to the consumption of chocolate cake in the midnight hours. Here is one recent treasure, plucked from her well-stocked pantry:

Fallen

Some people embrace love with the fervor of a missionary

holding it close like a book of scriptures to the heart

while others just cup it softly and awkward like a nestling

that has somehow fallen from where it once was

the love I hold has wandered through both paths

like a lost fawn searching for comfort in the dark

once my heart found it

I grasped hold with the strength of a thousand men

never wanting to let go

yet too weak to try
now I tenderly keep it within my palm
knowing it is too fragile
to withstand another fall.

Lovely, isn't it? Do check it out on Carrie's site, as it is so visually lovely in there.

Another gem, one of Carrie's earliest posts, in 2010 : 

Reflections From the Water

The follower is like a leaking faucet that just keeps dripping and dripping until someone comes along and turns off the valve.

The fool is like a puddle in a busy pathway that gets stepped in time and time again.

The dreamer is a like a arctic glacier that lives in constant longing for a spring that it has never known.

The hero is like a high flowing fountain that's fervent spray touches all who come near.

The leader is like the tide that has the power to pull the waves in and send them back out again.

For all mankind is like a thousand differently wound rivers, yet each one is reaching toward the same ocean.

And one more comforting and uplifting offering, from 2011 :

One Solitary Tear

One solitary tear may fall...

yet hundreds of voices share the same cry.

We are never truly alone no matter how it may seem.

There is always someone else that has faced the same trial.

Another soul that has been in a worse place.

So take hope by the hand and hold on tight.

Follow where it leads.

Now repeat after me:

I am not alone.

You are not alone.

We are not alone.

Thank you, Carrie, for your long-term contributions to, and presence in,  our poetic community.