The song is dead.
The swordsman takes
The Victor’s stance.
But somewhere, still
A newborn child
Hears the promised song.
Frances Kakugawa
-
Recent Posts
Wordsworth Reader Guides
Categories
- 9/11 Memorial
- Agelessness
- aging
- Aloha Spirit
- Alz Assoc Aloha Chapter
- Alzheimer's Assoc. lecture
- Alzheimer's Association
- Alzheimer's Care Resources
- Alzheimer's Disease
- America Salutes
- Arden Fair Mall
- Asian American Curriculum
- Autism
- Barnes & Noble
- Basically Books
- Blind and deaf journalism
- Book Awards
- Book Reviews
- Books & Work by Other Writers/Artists
- Brickhouse Gallery
- Brickhouse Gallery, Sacramento CA
- Brookdale Foundation, RAPP
- CA Family Fitness Center
- camelia
- Caregiving
- Caregiving Haiku
- Center for Humans and Nature
- Charles Pellegrino
- Children's literature
- Christmas for Sale
- Christmas gifts from above
- Climate change
- Coffee & Poets
- Coffee and Poets
- Coronavirus
- crows
- CVS Pharmacy, CA State Board of Pharmacy
- Dangerous Woman: Poetry for the Ageless
- Dave Nassaney Radio Show
- Dear Frances
- December 7
- Dignity in Aging
- Dr Oz
- Earth Day
- Echoes of Kapoho
- education
- Elder abuse
- Elder Care
- Electonics VS Human
- Electronic vs. Nature/Human
- EPA, Trump's climate change,
- Events
- Fruits & Vegetables
- Georgia O'Keefe
- Giving care without guilt
- Going Green
- Gold Country Writers
- Gun Control
- Guns are for killing
- Haiku
- Hawaii
- Hawaii Island ADult Care
- Hawaii Island Adult Care, Inc.
- Hawaii's Volcanoes
- Hawaiian Air
- Hawaiian Air Monopoly
- Hiroshima/Nagasaki
- Humanities
- Hurricane Lane in Hawaii
- I Am Somebody: Bringing Dignity and Compassion to Alzheimer's Caregiving
- Island Memoirs: The Days of Our Youth
- Kapoho
- Kapoho Christmas
- Kapoho: Memoir of a Modern Pompeii
- Konawaena School
- Legacy of Humanity
- Leonard Pitts, Jr.
- Man vs Technology
- mark Dunkerly
- Mark Friedman
- match book covers
- Media Coverage
- Memoirs
- Memorial Day, 100th Battalion, 442nd
- Minding Nature
- Monsanto
- Morikami Museum FL
- morning glory
- My Books
- My Rants About Something
- Na Mea Hawaii
- Nagasaki
- Naka' u Awai
- National Council of Negro Women
- Nature
- nature vs. electronics
- Nature vs. Man
- New York Times
- Northern CA Publishers/Authors: NCPA
- November: Alz month
- on Death and Dying
- On writing chldren's books
- our children
- Pahoa eruption
- Pahoa High School, Kapoho,
- Palomia Tree
- Parenting
- Patrick Toal
- Peace
- Pneumonia
- Poetry
- poetry and caregiving
- Poetry and Writing
- poetry month
- Politics
- Racism
- Rainier Grapes
- Raley's
- Rotary Club
- Sacramento Bee
- Sacramento Poetry Center
- Safeway…Trader Joe's
- Sexism
- sexual harrassment
- sexuality in Alzheimer's
- Students in classrooms
- Sunflowers
- sunfowers
- Teacher, You Look Like a Horse, On Teaching,
- the 21st farmer
- The Go for Broke Spirit: Portraits of Courage
- The Homeless
- Thoughts, Musings, Things to Share
- To Hell and Back: The Last Train from Hiroshima
- Trees
- Uber & Lyft
- UC Davis Hospital
- Uncategorized
- Veterans' Day
- Vietnam War
- Vietnam War Veterans' Day
- War & Peace
- war and peace
- Watermark Publishing
- William Wordsworth
- Women's rights
- Wordsworth Dances the Waltz
- Wordsworth the Poet
- Wordsworth! Stop the Bulldozer
- Wordsworth, It's In Your Pocket
- World Peace
- Writers
Frances Kakugawa's Blog 
Absolutely lovely, Frances. And, please forgive me, but our minds must be traveling along the same path, but I just published onto WordPress a poem entitled “Hope.”
HOPE
© 2016 Barbara Grace Lake
When all hope dies
Can ever threads remain
Of former ties
To call it back again
Does hope join dreams
Mid broken solemn vows
As uttered means
Enthralling men to bow
But threads there be
So hope is still aware
Within a sea
Of monstrous self despair
We are alive
Our souls unfettered bare
And hope survives
If mantle we would wear