April 15: One-a-Day in Celebration of National Poetry Month

Emily Dickinson is a favorite--a perfect example of just the right image for the moment she addresses. 

XXII

The bustle in a house
        The morning after death
Is solemnest of industries
Enacted upon earth,--

The sweeping up the heart,
And putting love away
We shall not want to use again 
Until eternity. 

Hope Is The Thing with Feathers

"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 more 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. 

~ Emily Dickinson

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