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Christopher Moore @theauthorguy.bsky.social

Hope is a thing with feathers.

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apr 12, 2025, 5:31 pm • 174 19

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sailorrav.bsky.social @sailorrav.bsky.social

Thank you. I have the poem framed and read it often.

apr 12, 2025, 9:04 pm • 0 0 • view
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Richard Hayes @rmhayes.bsky.social

(Writing notes quickly) Emily had a parakeet named Hope

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benbenuto42.bsky.social @benbenuto42.bsky.social

apr 12, 2025, 6:29 pm • 1 0 • view
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ROSCO @obee-juan.bsky.social

Thank you.

apr 13, 2025, 1:15 am • 1 0 • view
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Erin @erin1reads.bsky.social

(Zero snark intended) What are you finding hope in these days?

apr 12, 2025, 5:37 pm • 0 0 • view
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Oblio @oblio.bsky.social

“Hope is not the thing with feathers. The thing with feathers is my nephew. I must take him to a specialist in Zurich.”

apr 12, 2025, 6:42 pm • 4 0 • view
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Pajamazon (Jamie Wyman) ♿💙🐝🌻🍉 @pajamazon.bsky.social

Emily knew what was up. I learned this poem by watching Arthur with my kid. Still love it and use "the thing with feathers" often.

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dnratl.bsky.social @dnratl.bsky.social

Great! Now I've got Yellow Rose of Texas in my head again! But seriously, well put ED. Good on ya.

apr 12, 2025, 7:39 pm • 0 0 • view
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AffirmationCoyote.bsky.social @affirmationcoyote.bsky.social

Another take on hope, for darker times when hope is even more necessary:

Hope Is Not a Bird, Emily, It’s a Sewer Rat by Caitlin Seida Hope is not the thing with feathers That comes home to roost When you need it most. Hope is an ugly thing With teeth and claws and Patchy fur that’s seen some shit. It’s what thrives in the discards And survives in the ugliest parts of our world, Able to find a way to go on When nothing else can even find a way in. It’s the gritty, nasty little carrier of such diseases as optimism, persistence, Perseverance and joy, Transmissible as it drags its tail across your path and bites you in the ass. Hope is not some delicate, beautiful bird, Emily. It’s a lowly little sewer rat That snorts pesticides like they were Lines of coke and still Shows up on time to work the next day Looking no worse for wear.
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Dark Lunch Studio 🎨 @darklunchstudio.bsky.social

So glad someone came to share this one

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Carey Wolff @careywolff.bsky.social

It asked a crumb of me. I gave it a waffle.

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Kyddryn @kyddryn.bsky.social

Hope springs eternal.

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SeaTea @tierno158.bsky.social

Thank you. 🙂

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