Free Verse · Hope
Choose Generously
Midnight will make its noise,
but the year actually begins
tomorrow, mid-morning,
when you choose — quietly,
over coffee, no fireworks —
which of your old hopes
gets to come along.
Choose generously.
Original poem © QuillOak — personal sharing is permitted.
“Choose Generously” by The QuillOak Editors — quilloak.com/poems/choose-generously
Quick facts
- Poem
- Choose Generously
- Poet
- The QuillOak Editors
- Length
- 8 lines
- Form
- Free Verse
- Themes
- Hope, Life, Short
Text, source & rights
A traceable edition
Original QuillOak text. Personal sharing is permitted; other reuse requires permission.
- Author record
- The QuillOak Editorstoday
- Source record
- QuillOak originalChoose Generously, authored for QuillOak by The Quillery
- Display decision
- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
- Publication record
- Not recorded in the imported source
- Text fingerprint
- SHA-256 ac0c4947e10487eb…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.
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