Each One of Many – Poem by Ali Grimshaw

~ Ali Grimshaw

Hope is a muscle. It is a vigorous choice, to see what is wrong and what needs healing and needs repair and needs our attention and also to keep our hearts and our imaginations and our energy oriented towards what we want to build, what we want to create, what we’re walking towards. – Krista Tippett

if each person is a light
if we are billions of shades shifting into place

a musical kaleidoscopic view
of chromaticity
each piece a necessity of brilliant contrasts
an ever changing infinitely beautiful song

what splendor of possibilities
sparkles this world

if we chose ourselves 
as magnificent beings of change

hope in full color

© Ali Grimshaw 2023

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31 thoughts on “Each One of Many – Poem by Ali Grimshaw”

  10. “if each person is a light
    if we are billions of shades shifting into place”

    I love your whole thought process in this poem with that evocative first line right through to the last: “hope in full colour.”

    And the accompanying images empower the sentiments. Love that first image especially 🙂

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