You Are Hope [Original Poem/Contest Entry]

in youarehope •  7 years ago  (edited)

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On our backs, there's this monkey
who whispers
"not your circus"
Until we become this vestigial organ
Walking, wounded
by apathy and corruption

You are hope
Be brave
Refuse to be laid low
by the pounding shores of selfishness
Decline to be ground down
by the gears of the miserly machine
remake the world in your own image
The godspark is in you-
Give, and remember
move earth, and heaven will follow.


This poem was created for @geke's contest, promoting @youarehope- A Steem funded charity that is doing great things for people in 3 different countries. So far they are providing "meals to children in the Philippines, Food, Clothing and Shoes to disadvantaged people in Venezuela and school supplies and backpacks to some very grateful children at an impoverished village school in Nigeria" (Source). The blockchain has some excellent opportunities to make spending more transparent in a lot of sectors. So far, my favorite sector to improve transparency in is charity. How many more people could be helped with the minimal overhead that Steemit provides? I am so excited that the community is providing relief in such a direct and effective way.

Another great blog you should check out is @marty-arts! Here's her original post. She does some beautiful art using many different mediums- this particular image is a lino-cut. The technique for this is really cool- it's a print made by cutting into a sheet of linoleum and stamped with ink. She also does some amazing realistic images of animals in watercolor. Thank you for letting me feature your art, Marty!


Like my work? Check out some of my other collaborations...
Watercolor girl
My Monster
My Yellow Bird


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Poetry is property of Sunravelme

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good luck in the contest! And thank you for sharing my linocut :)

It's gorgeous! As is all your art. You need a larger audience!

Is it white ink on black paper, or the other way?

black on white paper :)

Interesting!

Hi @marty-arts. Do you also do woodcutting? Btw, I really like your linocut keep on doing this nice works!

Thank you for supporting the efforts of @YouAreHOPE to provide Help, Opportunity, Purpose and Empowerment to poverty stricken peoples in distressed locales all over the world through the help of the steemit community and the borderless power and transparency of steem!

Thank you so much for supporting this initiative I founded with the help of my friends here on the steem block chain to help our impoverished fellow humans around the world in economically distressed locales!

Lovely poem too, good luck in the contest!

Yours in service,
@SirCork
Steem Witness #98
Founder - YouAreHOPE
(Visit the blog at @youarehope for more information or our website at http://YouAreHOPE.org)

Thank you! I'm super excited for the work your group is doing :)

Awesome poem @sunravelme!

Thank you for your help!

I really love and respect that what you’ve created and shared with us here is actually benefiting those in need elsewhere... glad I found your page, I’ll be checking in again soon for sure...

Thank you!

Sure thing...

Beautiful... ''Move earth and heaven will follow''

Great work :)

Thank you!

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So true!

You are hope
Be brave
Refuse to be laid low
Good luck!

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Stunning poetry!
Thank you for sharing!

Woo just heard this on the creative show , great work

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