Hope Poems

'Hope' is the thing with feathers—
That perches in the soul—
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"Delicta juventutis et ignorantius ejus, quoesumus ne memineris, Domine."



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WHEN by my solitary hearth I sit,
And hateful thoughts enwrap my soul in gloom;
When no fair dreams before my "mind's eye" flit,
And the bare heath of life presents no bloom;
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It is dark, no moon, no light
Just darkness, a starless sky
The wind blows, the waves break
A single firefly passes by
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Hope was but a timid friend;
She sat without the grated den,
Watching how my fate would tend,
Even as selfish-hearted men.
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I hope your happy with your life
I hope your happy with your wife
I hope you see what you have done
I hope you see that this is all wrong
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Beautiful Evelyn Hope is dead!
Sit and watch by her side an hour.
That is her book-shelf, this her bed;
She plucked that piece of geranium-flower,
Beginning to die too, in the glass;
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Hope is a tattered flag and a dream of time.
Hope is a heartspun word, the rainbow, the shadblow in white
The evening star inviolable over the coal mines,
The shimmer of northern lights across a bitter winter night,
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The spirit killeth, but the letter giveth life.
The week is dealt out like a hand
That children pick up card by card.
One keeps getting the same hand.
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All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair--
The bees are stirring--birds are on the wing--
And WINTER slumbering in the open air,
Wears on his smiling face a dream of Spring !
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[Verse 1]
Well Buhari he runs a country
he runs in Abuja and the Kastina
he makes a few of his people happy, oh
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Hope is always hoped for
In times of despair
Hope is sought
Hope is in mind's thought
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HOPE....SOME PEOPLE LACK IT......ALL PEOPLE IN SEARCH OF IT..... I HOPE.......OTHERS CLAIM TO HAVE IT ABUNDANTLY........IN THEIR WINE GLASSES.....HALF WAY FULL.....AND FOR THE ALCOHOLIC......THE MUG....IS ALWAYS TO EMPTY......AND NEVER........OVERFLOWS......AND LIVES IN COLD ALUMINUM CANS.....AT THE LOCAL SUPER MARKET....OR GROCERY STORE......HOPE.....SOME CLAIM THE SECRET.....LIES....IN A PACK OF CANCER.... STICKS...CALLED SMOKES......OTHERS...FIND IT IN BARS.....STRIP JOINTS...IN FORM.....OF BARE BREASTS...PINK NIPPLES.....AND NAKED FLESH.......OTHERS....ALSO CLAIM THE SAME...IN CHURCHES.....WITH SERMONS......PSALMS.....IN PRAISE.....CRUCIFIX......OR WITH BREAD.......AND IN HOSPITALS.......WITH MEDS...........WHEN THE GUY MEETS YOU IN THE BATHROOM OR THE ALLEY.....AND YOUR MONEY TAKES....IN....TRADE FOR...SOME.... HOPE.....THEY ALSO CALL IT DRUGS.....SHIT....OR DOPE.....THE COPS THEN TAKE THEM BOTH AWAY WHEN YOU GET BUSTED...ARRESTED.....CONVICTED WITH OUT A JURY IN COURT........THEN YOU WILL EITHER CHOOSE TO FIND IT IN JAIL......BY FORCE.....OR MAYBE YOU WONT.......HAVE YOU LOST IT.... BY FREE..... WILL AND CHOICE......OR YOUR OWN.....DUMB MISTAKES......BECAUSE ON THE PHONE....YOU SAID ITS NAME......OR THE OTHERS..FUCKED UP AND MADE WAY TO MUCH NOISE.....HOPE......ITS NO WHERE TO BE SEEN LATELY AND EVERY WHERE ON THE STREETS TO BE PICKED.....UP....WE AVOID...OR ARE WE JUST DEVOID
.......BUT BECAUSE OF SOME FEW CARING PEOPLE...AND A FEW GOOD FOLKS........DONATING......GROCERIES...TURKEYS OR TOYS......THIS NOVEMBERS THANKS GIVING....AND CHRISTMAS BROUGHT THOSE WHO COULD..... NOT.....SOME MUCH NEEDED SMILES..AND JOY....FOR ALL THEIR... EMPTY BELLIES AND THE LITTLE CHILDREN THEIR TOYS.....IN TRADE FOR A FEW SMILES AND EARLY LAUGHTERS BEFORE...........THE EVENING NEWS......AND LESTER HOLT.....SAID......AND.......AGAIN COVID 19......THEN THE SHOOTINGS...OUR HOPE...... IT DESTROYS......HOPE IN CONTRARY...... I FIND IT IN DROVES.....AT MY LOCAL COUNTY HOMELESS....SHELTER......THE POUND.........OR IN LINE.....FOR SOME FOOD.......AT THE SALVATION ARMY........THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH.......ST PATRICKS......GIVING AWAY BOXES TO FEED THE HUNGRY....THE YOUNG...IN THE MIDDLE....AND ESPECIALLY THE OLD...AND THE POOR......HOPE......I SAY ITS MUCH NEEDED.......ON A POSTER......THAT SAYS WANTED.....I OFFER A MILLION IN BOUNTY... FOR WHO EVER.....COULD FIND IT.....AND BRING IT......IF I COULD AFFORD IT........HOPE.....I ASK YOU DONT LOSE IT.....IF YOU HAVE ENOUGH THAT YOU SHARE....IT.....THAT YOU DONT DENY IT OR.....WASTE..IT...ALLOW IT......AND BLESS IT......KISS IT...AND MISS IT......WANT IT AND NEED IT.....EAT IT.....FEED IT......LOVE IT....AND GIVE IT.......HOPE.......DONT DROP IT.....OR..LOSE....IT...MISPLACE.....IT......ABUSE IT...OR SPEND IT.......OR MISUSE IT........UNWISELY OR UNFAIRLY........... AND IF YOU DO.......ASK FOR IT BACK....IN FORM OF FORGIVNESS....CARING....MERCY.....AND LOVE......AND DONT GIVE IT UP......SEARCH FOR IT....RELENTLESSLY......AND REGAIN IT AND AQUIRE IT.....HOPE.....SOME OF US NEED....IT..OTHERS HAVE...IT..... SOME.....LOST IT AND I HOPE WE ARE ALL IN SEARCH OF IT....AND FIND IT.......HOPE.......
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Hope that's a certainty.
Hope steadfast and sure.
Hope for eternity.
Hope that will endure.
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In the marginalized world of the spirit
Hope stands out as a beacon on the highest mountain
Strategically placed to serve humanity's journey home
To have hope is to be totally invisible to the reckless hands of time
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Upon you I wish a curse
No, I wish upon you much worse,
I hope that you are happy when you are free
And that you never find no one else like me.
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Hope is sawdust, we need to fly

Hope is a mystery, we need to clarify
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Hope floats in many ways
Just like boats
Into our minds and into our thoughts
Hope is the vision to find out the correct ways
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2018 Hope this is my year. I try to have hope but hope turns into fear.

Hope can excite you when expected, turn you heartless when neglected.
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Turns out my inner clown is full of hope.
She wants a gavel.
She wants to stencil her name on a wooden gavel:
Esperanza's Gavel.
Clowns are clichés and they aren't afraid of clichés.
Mine just sleeps when she's tired.
But she can't shake the hopes.
She's got a bad case of it, something congenital perhaps.
Maybe it was sexually transmitted,
something to do with oxytocin or contractions or nipple stimulation,
maybe that's it, a little goes a long way.
Hope is also the name of a bakery in Queens.
And there's a lake in Ohio called Hope Lake where you can get nachos.
I'm so stuffed with it the comedians in the Cellar never call on me,
even when I'm sitting right there in the front row with a dumb look of hope on my face.
Look at these books: hope.
Look at this face: hope.
When I was young I studied with Richard Rorty, that was lucky,
I stared out the window and couldn't understand a word he said,
he drew a long flat line after the C he gave me,
the class was called metaphysics and epistemology,
that's eleven syllables, that's
hope hope hope hope hope hope hope hope hope hope hope.
Just before he died, Rorty said his sense of the holy was bound up with the hope
that some day our remote descendants will live in a global civilization
in which love is pretty much the only law.
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