Wednesday, April 4, 2012

"Hope is the thing with feathers"


Distant Hope

There are some days
When one is drained.
Curiosity is flat.
Mental strength is strained
And spiritual energy is depleted.

Today
Watching a goldfinch
At the thistle feeder
Outside the kitchen window
Is the only intellectual inquiry I can make
And the only prayer I can offer.
Yet today
It is all I need
To see hope on the wing.

                           Charles Kinnaird


Hope is the thing with feathers 
That perches in the soul, 
And sings the tune--without the words, 
And never stops at all.

                               – Emily Dickinson

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