Acrostic · Hope
H-O-P-E (an Acrostic)
Hold on — not to how it was,
Only to what it still could be;
Plant something small in the wreckage,
Expect it, against the odds, to grow.
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“H-O-P-E (an Acrostic)” by The QuillOak Editors — quilloak.com/poems/hope-acrostic
Quick facts
- Poem
- H-O-P-E (an Acrostic)
- Poet
- The QuillOak Editors
- Length
- 4 lines
- Form
- Acrostic, Short Poems
- Themes
- Hope, Inspirational, Short
Craft notes
How this poem works
Measured from the text on this page, not copied from a summary. Counts are approximate: syllables and rhymes come from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, which models General American English, so dialect, older pronunciation, and performance can all change what you hear.
- Shape
- 4 lines · one 4-line stanza
- Line length
- Lines run 7-9 syllables (median 8), consistent with tetrameter. No single length dominates, which is normal once elision and contraction are in play.
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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 originalH-O-P-E (an Acrostic), 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 00d742740b8f35e3…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.
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