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At sunrise I arose…
2023-12-06by Michel Deguy At sunrise I arose To the sound the machine animals make passing by in the streets over heads Was it briefly interminable or intermina...
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Alexander Throckmorton
2023-12-06by Edgar Lee Masters In youth my wings were strong and tireless, But I did not know the mountains. In age I knew the mountains But my weary wings coul...
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At the Fishhouses
2023-12-06by Elizabeth Bishop Although it is a cold evening, down by one of the fishhouses an old man sits netting, his net, in the gloaming almost invisible, a...
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Alice at Seventeen: Like a Blind Child
2023-12-06by Darcy Cummings One summer afternoon, I learned my body like a blind child leaving a walled school for the first time, stumbling from cool hallways ...
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All She Wrote
2023-12-06by Harryette Mullen Forgive me, I'm no good at this. I can't write back. I never read your letter. I can't say I got your note. I haven...
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At the Gym
2023-12-06by Mark Doty This salt-stain spot marks the place where men lay down their heads, back to the bench, and hoist nothing that need be lifted but some bu...
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All the World's a Stage
2023-12-06by William Shakespeare All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man i...
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Alone
2023-12-06by Maya Angelou Lying, thinking Last night How to find my soul a home Where water is not thirsty And bread loaf is not stone I came up with one thing ...
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Altars of Light
2023-12-06by Pierre Joris If the light is the soul then soul is what's all around me. It is you, it is around you too, it is you. The darkness is inside me,...
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Always on the Train
2023-12-06by Ruth Stone Writing poems about writing poems is like rolling bales of hay in Texas. Nothing but the horizon to stop you. But consider the railroad&...