20 Poems by Tom Crider

Selected Poems by Tom Crider

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It’s All About Hope

isn’t it? I mean
that milkweed seed
floating by on
blissful fluff
lifted by wind
up and over the roof.

The drifting seed
seems happy to ignore
the odds against it being
dropped down
on open ground

where it can power
itself into root, stem,
and nourishing leaves,

the windblown butterfly
must find to keep its kind alive.