Posted in celebration of national poetry month. This is the next to last poem. Have a favorite poem you have read or written? Please email it to frank@mytownmatters.com.

Hope is the Thing with Feathers – Emily Dickenson

“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.

By: Emily Dickinson