Pablo Neruda poem by Jessica

Jessica is studying the poetry by Pablo Neruda for her Poet Project. She wrote a poem in the emotional style of Neruda and also read poems about the theme of love and poems that celebrate becoming a poet and the ocean itself. 


Read Jessica's Poem below. Did you notice the use of personification?

Hope

Hope is a delicate dream

That holds us, sees us,

If we want to leave the thing called hope,

It follows us, trailing behind

As far as she dare

To only cradle us back into her arms

After our last misfortune

We try to escape,

The only thing stable in our life

But she is always there

Waiting for you to cry mercy

So she may swoop in and rock you back and forth

Back and forth, Back and forth

Until you are calm and can breathe

Without fear