Hope and Poetry
The inspirations for today's blog are
1. HOPE -- something we all need right now.
2. April is National Poetry Month.
I'm challenging myself and all of you to write a poem this month.
If you care to share it with me: elizabeth.muster@daviess.kyschools.us
“Hope” is the thing with feathers (314)
BY EMILY DICKINSON
“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -
And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -
And sore must be the storm -
That could abash the little Bird
That kept so many warm -
I’ve heard it in the chillest land -
And on the strangest Sea -
Yet - never - in Extremity,
It asked a crumb - of me.
van der Woude, M. (2018) Hope Is the Thing with Feathers. Available at: https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/research-subject-groups/centre-criminology/centreborder-criminologies/blog/2018/07/hope-thing (Accessed [8 Apr 2020]).
More Poetry Resources
Poems about the Corona Virus Epidemic
by Dr. Elizabeth Mitchell
by DAVE PELL
Distance: Corona Poetry Day One
A 30-day poetry challenge for the month
