Hope Roars

Hope Roars. Photo Credit Jame Kuang

From under her jumbled hair

sparkles beguiling eyes

looking for plots and intrigues

searching for fun and hugs

 

Dimpled smiles disclose

just a little girl with a big idea

tumbling from one room to another

trading partners like toys and imagination

 

Dancing to any song real or imagined

she wriggles and twerks with abandon

so un-self aware that her ordinary

is extraordinarily footloose and free

 

So jump, skip, leap, or spring

It makes no difference what you do;

you are a Hopeful spot in our day,

and you twinkle and twirl us with delight.

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In celebration of my granddaughter’s first birthday; during the Covid Pandemic!

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Hope looking up at me

In the fine tradition of toddlers everywhere:     Chocolate Cake by Osmosis!