On Hope by Ron Whitehead

This is not another poem of the week, but rather, something else entirely. Today’s poem is On Hope by Ron Whitehead, U.S. National Lifetime Beat Poet Laureate. Ron is an incredible poet and one of the nicest, most compassionate people you could meet. He has over thirty years of experience and never stops writing, the man is a huge inspiration. Check out his poem below.

Ron Whitehead walking in fog, photo by Jinn Bug.

On Hope

by Ron Whitehead

Hope can be

the longest walk

down a vaguely known

dangerously jagged crooked path

into an apparently impenetrable fog

deliberately determinedly

taking one step at a time towards

an unseeable lighthouse

that you stubbornly know

is somewhere there.