Poetry Thursday, in honor of some of my AUG bday faves, HOPE

Hope.

~Alice Dunbar-Nelson

Wild seas of tossing, writhing waves,

A wreck half-sinking in the tortuous gloom;

One man clings desperately, while Boreas raves,

     And helps to blot the rays of moon and star,

     Then comes a sudden flash of light, which gleams on shores afar.

This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day on July 19, 2020, by the Academy of American Poets.