There is Always Hope
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Hope is What gets Us Through
As winter is followed by spring
New life begins to grow and bloom
As storms are followed by rainbows
Sunshine comes to chase the gloom
As darkness is followed by light
Cheerful birdsong heralds the day
Then sorrow must be followed by joy
To chase the pain and tears away
As we travel our journey of life
And find we’re on a slippery slope
When we reach the end of our tether
Remember there is always hope
© Rosemary Sadler January 2012
I got a warning that this hub would be flagged beacause it was too short on content. Considering all the Haikus around this is rediculous and I just wish and HOPE hubpages would be consistent with their rules.
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Hello Rosemary,
What a beautiful poem and thoughts to take to heart. I love your new Avatar...how cute! Is that a Great Pyrenees?..I am not sure if I spelled that right..I love those dogs..They have many here in Texas to work with the cattle..
Anyway.. wonderful hub..Thank you
God bless,
Sunnie
Ah you heard me calling you Sunshine... smiles
yes there is always hope, better days, better times to come.
Thank you
Hi sunnie. Yes you are right and you have spelled it right too, receive a gold star. Lol
Beautiful dogs but they drop so much fur its hard to keep up with.
Happy you like the poem
Enjoy your day/evening
As long as you have friends, and you know you do, there is always hope. Blessings to you in this new year!
Hi Cindy. Thank you for visiting, yes there is an abundance of friends here in the hub who support each other.
I just HOPE hubpages will get their act together and have some consistencey
Blessing for you too in this new year
Hi Rosemary, beautiful poem, I hope every winter day for Spring to arrive and bring warmth back to our air. Hope for it to happen soon.
P.S.You forgot to approve comments.
Hi Becky wouldn't it be lovely if it was spring all year round, but we would not appreciate it so much, maybe just shorter winters aye.
I'm pleased you enjoyed the poem
Stay warm and thanks for the P.S
This work has a nice melody to it Rosemay. Hope is what makes all of us push forward. I think you portrayed that well.
The bird poem I wrote but a singing bird he's still around, I heard him sing a couple of days and he lifted my spirits.
Your poem is great love it. Voted it up and awesome my friend.
Where would we be without hope Mike, it is as you say what drives us forward.
Thank you for the compliment
Rosemary,
Loved your poetry.
You make excellent point on your note. Once my hub was unpublished saying it was substandard, the only criteria it met was it was too short. However, the same length hub is getting nice traffic these days.
Hi writer20. There is nothing sweeter to start the day when we hear that birdsong. Pleased to hear yours are still around.
Thank you for the vote
Hi Vinaya. I'm pleased you liked my poem. Thank you for dropping by
That's what I mean there just isn't any consistency. You never know when you have the right length or not.
i love the message that this poem conveys, very hopeful...
Thank you Raci. I'm pleased you like thos poem. Things always turn around.
Hope you have a great year ahead of you.
Rose Mary, this is beautiful indeed. What is joy without sorrow, what is happiness without pain? They are both sides of the same coin of life. But Hope always prevails for those who set their eyes on it!!
Best wishes for a glorious year ahead!!
So true Sofs, you can't appreciate one without experiencing the other.
Hope breeds encouragement and strength.
I hope the year ahead is filled with all your heart's wishes.
Hi Rose, I really loved this message of hope. It is so true what you've said to Sofs. "You can't appreciate one without experiencing the other". I'll be hoping for clear sunny days filled with birdsong for you and lots of rainbows. Love, Peg
I needed that today. and I agree I should be able to write a short piece hub if that's what my inspiration leads me to write. it's almost like reverse censorship. so haiku to you and all that!
OK, it's short, but sweet! Couldn't you just add a few more lines just to make HP happy? I read somewhere that the rule doesn't apply to poetry. Anyway, I liked it!
It is not too short on content at all, Rosemay. If something is worth saying then it is worth saying in as many words or as few words as you wish. By the response you have received, it is obvious to me, to you, and to Hub Pages, that this is worth reading and keeping in one's heart.
This is beautiful and uplifting..I especially liked, " When we reach the end of our tether, Remember there is always hope." Best Wishes Rosemary.
Hi Rosemay - firstly a very Happy New Year to you and yours! I hope 2012 is a good one for you!
Secondly - the photograph with the wee one and the dog is so beautiful!!! I hadn't even read your wonderful poem, but the photo had me smiling big time! Anyway, onto your poem. The feelings I have are beautiful and uplifting. But the poem is more than that - it is very true what you have written, even although at times it might not feel like it. It doesn't matter how dark/black/bad things are there is always light, love and hope at the end of it. We just need to keep believing that light will always follow the dark.
A beautiful start to 2012 from your wonderful poem and your lovely photograph!
Hi Peg.
Thank you for reading and leaving such a lovely wish. I'll send that wish right back to you as you move through winter looking forward to spring. May all your days be sunny.
Morning mhaydock
I hope my poem cheered you today, it is but one day and there is always tomorrow to look forward to.
Yes I agree, sometimes we don't need a large hub to say what we need to say. I just wish they were consistent.
I hope the rest of your day is filled with hope for tomorrow.
Hi Mary
I wrote this poem to say what I wanted it to say and saw no reason to change it or add to it. This contains a lot more words than a 17 syllable Haiku. I didn't jump onto the Haiku fad that is spreading through hubpages. You know me normally my poems are much longer than this and yes the rule does apply to poetry or I wouldn't have received the warning.
However I am pleased you enjoyed the poem.
Have a wonderful evening
Thank you Ian
It says just exactly what I wanted to say as it is.
Thank you for the lovely kind words. If we keep hope in our hearts then we can make it through anything.
Hi Ruby
It is not always easy to see the light at the end of the tunnel but it is always there and it is hope that helps us reach it.
I am happy that you felt this poem uplifting
Thank you
Morning Seeker
At the risk of repeating myself I wish you a wonderful 2012 as well.
I am happy that you are smiling at the photo of my grandson sat against that big cuddly sofa. Lol
I cannot add to what you have said, you have said it perfectly. Hope and love will give us the courage and strength to reach the end of the tunnel
Thank you for leaving such a wonderful thoughtful comment and it pleases me that my poem put the message across that I wanted it to.
Thank you
Your poem is just the right length, Rosemary, for the message it brings. Beautiful. And speaking of beautiful, that baby is beautiful and that tremendously large dog is beautiful. Warning! If you ever lose the baby, just look underneath the dog!
haha if the baby rolled under the dog he would have to stay there. 160lb of fluff, she will not move until SHE is ready to move, I had to vacuum around her. Lol.
Thank you for your very kind and beautiful compliments.
Yes Rosemay, there is Always Hope, and you have said it oh so well in your Lovely Poem in Celebration of the New Year 2012.
Happy New Year Dear Friend, I'm so glad you are still here on Hub Pages!
Now that is a coincidence, I was just on my way over to your place... :-)
Thank you for the lovely compliment
Hoping your year is all you wish it to be my friend.
Speaking of vacuuming around the dog, have you ever vacuumed her. Maybe get a head start on the hair cleanup. I used to vacuum my dog. This one doesn't like it but my Beau dog used to love it. I also clipped him during the summer and just vacuumed it off as I cut. I think it was cool when I vacuumed.
I was just talking to you over at the cafe Becky and you are here. Lol
No I never vacuumed her, accidently caught her tail now and then. Lol
I used to give her a good brush and she had monthly visits to the groomers for a bath and clipping and she enjoyed the ride in the car, but we would hose her down daily in summer, she would sweat so much.
If mine is out when we get in the car, he tries to get in also. Lol It is fine unless Katy is just starting him out for his walks. He goes out only on a leash where we're at. He loves to ride but wants the front passenger seat. Usually that is Dennis' seat. I rode to Illinois with him on my lap.
We had a huntaway that always wanted the best seat in the car. Lol His character was like Beau, He would have climbed onto dennis's head too.
Brilliant as always Rosemay, what a great start to the New Year.
I have to award an up up and away here.
Take care my friend.
Eddy.
Oh yes indeed 'There is always hope!!'
There has to be hasn't there and I vote this one up without a doubt.
Take care and enjoy your day my friend.
Eddy.
What would we all do without hope? Such a great message from this poem Rosemay. Love the poem. Voted up, useful, and awesome. You have a great New Year as well Rosemay. I wish you nothing but the best.
Thank you Eddy for the lovely compliment.
Yes there has to be hope to see us through.
Take care my friend
Morning Ricky
yes hope gives us the strength and courage to work through our troubles.
All the very best for the New Year to you too.
Take care
Where there is hope there is a way, a beautiful poem and message, voted up and awesome.
Thank you for youe lovely comment M M It is always nice to see you.
Thank you for the vote
Aintchaglad U didn't go away?
See how much people appreciate you, Rosemay?
Oh hunnie, what a beautiful and inspirational poem you have written. The words sing gently in my ears and tell me such a story of hop and love. I too am having problems with HP at the moment. Apparently, I have duplicated a hub. I think I would know if I had published it else where first. I adore your new avatar, beautiful baby and my kind of dog. Oh those hairs lol Net:)
Isureisglad buddy ... :-)
Yes thank you Ian I certainly do appreciate everybody a whole heap.
Ah dear Net, your comment is poetry in itself. I think it is the nicest comment I've had. Thank you.
Those few extra words solved my problem. Have you asked them to show you where the duplicate is, they will send you a link. I hope its sorted soon
A continuous vacuuming job with the dog (named Nita) If I didn't vacumm for 3 months we would be walking on thick pile wall to wall white carpet. Lol
Take care
it is so good to know there is always hope.. I love your poem Rosemary.. great job
I voted up and beautiful
Debbie
Hi Deborah
We can get through anything as long as we don't give up hope.
Thank you for your lovely comments and the vote
I love your sweet poem. It reminds me that after every negative, life WILL look up. I appreciate these words especially now and I am going to bookmark this page - HP better leave it here so I can find it when I come looking!
Hi Ardie
Yes if we hang onto hope through all the negatives of life things will get better. Never give up hope.
Thank you for bookmarking and yes I can see HP better look out for the woman in boots. Lol
I think I would not bother getting out of bed without hope. Beautiful poem.
Re: commercial hub/not enough content - the computer bot doesn't realize this is a poem, it just sees there is an outside link and panics.
Hi Flora
Hope is hard to find once someone has lost it.
Pleased you enjoyed the poem.
Panic stricken robots, poor wee things. Lol. We follow the rules and acredit the image to the creator and site, so we're damned if we do and damned if we don't
Thanks for that info
Where would we be without hope....beautiful poem.
Thank you for dropping by Susan, your comments are always appreciated
A beautiful piece of creative writing.
We need poems like this to remind us the magic of hope, thank you for writing.
:)
Thank you smileitstuesday for your lovely compliment
We all need hope to get us through life
Hi Rosemay
Beautiful and inspirational. There is always hope. :-)
Voted up and away.
Thank you Sue
It ia always a pleasure to see you and your comments mean a lot to me.
Enjoy the rest of your day
Yes, there is always hope and you have provided beautiful examples of where we can find it. A very lovely, uplifting poem, I like it a lot and vote accordingly!!!
Oh, and if the Hubpages administrators think your hub is too short they should come back and take a look at how much your beautiful poem is appreciated by the hubpages community!!
Fennelseed I am so pleased to see you here and leaving such a lovely compliment.
Thank you for reading and the vote, you are much appreciated
I wish you and your family the very best for 2012
What is life without Hope? I have been hopeful and thankful on so many occasions, life is beautiful, but without friendships it's a dull one. I am thankful to have friends like you here at the Hubs to sustain myself and push on. A very beautiful poem and I agree with Fennelseed about the administrators letting up and not sweating the small stuff but considering first and foremost the content of each scribe and the ABUNDANCE of comments left by your loyal fans. Chin Up my dear, you are a wonderful scribe, don't let them pull you down. Happy New Year to you and yours for 2012 and beyond.
Hi Ken
A couple of times I have been lost and without hope and almost given up. But things DO get better, hope returns and and along with it an appreciation of life. Withour friends life is not only dull but empty. I am so grateful for all the friends I have around me and for those I have found like you here on HP.
I am not going to let going to let the small stuff get me down, adding that note was just enough to satisfy them... :-)
Thank you for your kind words.
Wishing you a year of love, happiness, and peace my dear friend.
This is a lovely and inspiring piece. You are so right in that nature gives us our cues, and her patterns of death and renewal give us hope. Beautifully written!
Hi Cat
I am delighted that you enjoyed this poem and found it inspiring. Thank you for your lovely comment
Hope is all we need... it's a stepping stone.. and you write wonderfully loved your ... hope Frank :)
Hi Frank Yes I like the idea of hope being a stepping stone, taking us forward to better times.
Thank you for the love compliment
I love this poem , very pretty and the fact that it rhymes is a plus with me ! On the subject of it being too short , it appears you have done what i usually do , which is your bottom paragraph to them. It seems to me , the left hand at the hub doesnt know what the right hand is doing . The haikus , i dont really care for , if they are poetry then i guess so is this that i am writing to you , except in waaay shorter terms or next to nothing. takes all kinds i guess , but anyway, i voted this up , awesome and beautiful ! Have a wonderful afternoon !:)
Hi Jami Unless I am writing a rictameter I like to rhyme, a bit more of a challenge than a Haiku, which I don't write at all, just too easy, I would get no great satisfaction. But everyone to his own.
Anyway I am pleased you liked this one, thank you for reading and leaving a lovely comment and for the vote.
Take care my friend
In my darkist days you made me see hope, yes sometimes hope is all we can hold on to to pull us through. xx
PS so happy I can leave comments on my amazing siters work.
I am so pleased to see you here Sis, lovely to see you comment. wrist is still bad.
What a beautiful creation! It had a very uplifting, even serene effect on me, love it to bits!
Max I am so happy that you feel uplifted and serene :)
I love it to bits when I can give someone a smile and brighten their days.
Thank you for making me smile
Sunshine625 Level 8 Commenter 4 months ago
Sunshine is here to chase the gloom!! You are correct, there is always hope:)