Creative Traditional:

[KingAce]

Happiness contained by your life
Opposing the ideas of despair
Playing with self-assurance
Extracting the important things, that always seems to be positive,

Holding on to your dreams and aspirations
Offering to enhance other people's self-respect, so they can also have hope
Preffering to take the hard road, armed with faith
Entertaining your imagination with fantasized ambitions of becoming a somebody

Healing the abrasions rooted by doubt
Obtaining a sensation that impacts like a deep emotion
Possessing the power of an idea that can intrigue any type of personality
Exotic in appearence like beauty of a blooming flower

In spite of things you may hear,
Hope is the definition of hope...

[PaintedDiary]

Dear King,
WOW!!!! Loving the acrostic structured format first of all!!!! The words you choose are always symetrical, always parallel, always building upon one another until the perfect fractal appears! Hope is something quite different to me now, after reading this. The creativity that you possess is masterful. As I have said before, I will be at your book signing!!!! The last two stanzas, if you will....

Healing the abrasions rooted by doubt
Obtaining a sensation that impacts like a deep emotion
Possessing the power of an idea that can intrigue any type of personality
Exotic in appearence like beauty of a blooming flower

In spite of things you may hear,
Hope is the definition of hope...

are incredible. I have this thing for reading poems backwards also, and reverse is just as aesthetic as descending. King, what can I say...YOU DID IT AGAIN!!! Can I be one of the first people to get your book? LOL!!! LOVED IT KING!! I now know what HOPE really is. Much Luv'...

Painted aka Kim

[MsJacquiiC]

The Following Text Is Quoted:

Entertaining your imagination with fantasized ambitions of becoming a somebody

Beautiful! Absolutely BEAUTIFUL - KING you've defined Hope in such a way that it willnot be denied. The definitions you've written are what I've tried to say about hope all along - You must've read my mind...

Now with that said - Thanx for sharing your hope with the Community.
Very beautiful piece of poetry KING!

Jacquii.

[Altree94]

Very beautifully written! Obviously, a lot of thought went into this poem! I never thought of hope as being exotic but you are right, it is. Especially to those who have none. Are you going to submit this anywhere for publication? I really think you should!

[KingAce]

I'm a tad late on this one but nonetheless I thank everybody for responding this honestly is one of the most inspirational poems I have ever written and took a sizeable amount of thought to get it the way I wanted...Thank You

[Benny]

King, this one was well worth the read! Indeed, crafted by the mind of an artist...great work, Muse!

[KingAce]

Thank you very much Benny the feed is much appreciated

[nomadicrhymer]

KingAce, I think this is seriously awesome in the expression and the depth and range of HOPE...no longer a small light that can increase in the hoping of it, but a many-tentacled entity that reaches into all aspects of life and light and emotion and spiritual strength.

Thank you! A masterpiece in my book!!

Nomad

[Benny]

King, your words do indeed cover hope's range...I cannot express properly how wonderfully inspiring this work is for me. Just beautifully written and soulfully wrought. Great!

[KingAce]

Thank you very much for responding to my poem it was truly an inspiration within itself to write...