39 responses to “Wishful thinking”

1. This is exquisitely woven, Bjorn! I resonate with the idea of one feeling strained and longing for the pain to soothe so that they might leap again 🩷🩷

   • Or it will just be yet another plunge down into the deep.

2. Love the leap of faith, whether in feathered hopes or pain. I checked my prior poem and have used this one. That AI image fits your poem.

   • Thank you… we do fall every now and then, but then we leap again.

3. the concrete structure mirrors the upward momentum of the leap so perfectly – this was such a rhythmic joy to read, again and again

   • It was a play with sounds mostly.

4. I love that you got hooked on ‘a leap of faith’, Björn; it’s something we all take, especially as writers and artists. I also like the idea of ‘feathered hope / freed from ropes’.

   • We need a feathered hope… but often still we fall.

5. Bjorn, I love your ditty. The ending shows that we really have no choice but to leap again again again. It’s either that or curl up in fetal position in the root cellar. 

   Wow I just looked again at your image and see all of those other figures leaping. Somehow it lessens the loneliness.

   • I think we are a lot of people take that leap and plunge again…

6. The Tarot Fool makes this leap of faith and maybe it’s his hope we get infected with … but then, no flying with leaping … No fullness without crashing.

   • We do the same thing over and over.

7. I suppose it depends what you’re leaping into.

   • Indeed… but we do believe a lot in chance

8. “in feathered hope
   freed from ropes”

   Bravi to that leap of faith

   Much♡love

   • Freedom makes do that I think

9. “we hope in vain
   to simply cope
   for strain to snap”

   this is an interesting take on “a leap of faith”
   Well written, Bjorn.

   • If we fail when taking that leap we have no choice really

10. A thought provoking piece. Well written, Bjorn.

    • Thank you…

11. Great write, Bjorn. 🙂

    • 🙂

12. Great write, Bjorn, and yes, I think in the world we live in today we tend to feel obliged to sort of ‘leap of faith’ everywhere.

13. I like this Björn. I’m perhaps more of a optimist, to keep on hoping.

    One of the theaters in Philadelphia that we subscribe to, does a “leap of faith.” Subscribe at a discount now before the season’s plays are announced.

14. Perhaps it’s these leaps of faith, that keep us sane 😄

15. Seriously wonderful to read, with great rhythm and rhyme!!

16. Yes, there’s no guarantee of landing in a good place with a leap of faith.

17. I notice the way the rhyme-scheme - set at the start – disintegrates interestingly and appropriately as the words leap more wildly into the tricksy chaos of uncertainty – like life.

    Thank you to taking us on this journey; may we survive well and softly…

18. There’s hope there at the end Bjorn. Still more leaps to be taken, though, of course never sure where you might land, thus …

    Great rhythm here too!!

19. I like the concept of each hope being a leap of faith. I also enjoyed the internal and end line rhyme.

20. A fabulous write, Bjorn! Thoroughly enjoyed reading this.

21. “for chance to bring.”

    I think that faith has a lot to do with hope and potential; also, trust in G-d that things will turn out His way, not necessarily the way we expected. My disappointments have always been because of my own expectations. It’s only when I recognize my limitations, that I cannot make things happen the way I would like, that I can allow room for G-d to act according to His will in my life.

22. A leap of faith can end up going either way it seems. As Tzvi said, our expectations and anticipation when taking the leap of faith can leave us empty rather resting in the understanding of what we cannot know or make happen.

23. That the leap of faith is one that is continually repeated is surely true, by grace “to see, believe/in feathered hope” — how beautiful with resonances to Emily Dickinson.

24. If we stop leaping we stop living. Exactly. (K)

25. This is beautiful.

26. That leap of faith …we should certainly take again and again! The optimist that I am, I love the idea of not giving up.

27. So much hope here.. and you show it beautifully, Bjorn!

28. Such a well written piece

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