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Poem
By Catherine Wagner
Translated By Shoshana Olidort
snow brings restraint
and takes you by the arm:
snow’s religious, morals over
the landscape, relaxes
with…
and takes you by the arm:
snow’s religious, morals over
the landscape, relaxes
with…
Poem of The Day
By James Kimbrell
It’s not that I harbor a weeping willow
Shadow’s worth of longing for those cloaked
Turns and straight…
Shadow’s worth of longing for those cloaked
Turns and straight…
Audio Of The Day
By Kinsale Drake
Poem of The Day
By William Wordsworth
The power of Armies is a visible thing,
Formal and circumscribed in time and space;
But who the limits of that power shall trace
Which a brave People into light can bring
Or hide, at will,—for freedom combating
By just revenge inflamed? No foot may chase,
No eye can follow, to a fatal place
That power, that spirit, whether on the wing
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A Japanese verse form most often composed, in English versions, of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables. A haiku often features an image, or a pair of images, meant to depict the essence of a specific moment in time.
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passed down across generations
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on a piece of red soil they own
in a township of black ranchers.
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grand entry
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