This poem is from SA-based writer Valerie Volk, whose fourth book, Passion Play – The Oberammergau Tales, was launched in Adelaide and interstate last month.
Regeneration
Out of charred embers and black ashes
rises,
crested, purpled, royal, phoenix-like,
a promise of renewal –
and hope.
Out of the deadness of a grey cocoon
erupts
a thing of beauty,
wings translucent, quivering in the morning light –
and hope.
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Out of an exhausted body, racked by pains,
bursts forth
a child, naked, riding the universe,
a pledge that life goes on –
and hope.
Out of the pit of bleak despair
I fight my way
to restoration, and regeneration,
a faith in future happiness –
with hope.
Valerie Volk is a former teacher, lecturer and education program director whose award-winning poetry and short stories have been widely published in journals and anthologies. Passion Play – The Oberammergau Tales is her second verse novel.
Readers’ original and unpublished poems up to 30 lines can be emailed, with postal address, to [email protected]. A poetry book will be awarded to each contributor.