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Table of Contents

  1. POEM OF THE DAY
  4. Featured Poets
  6. WB
  7. Featured Poets2
  8. RF
  9. Featuredpoets3
  10. Featured Poets
  14. IF YOU HAD TO CHOOSE
  15. Guestbook
  17. Suggested Reading
  20. Amazon
  21. Amazon
  22. YouTube
  23. YouTube
  24. Link List
  25. Link List
  26. Want to join this group? Post your lens below.
  27. LINKS PLEXO
  28. Vote on the top lenses in this group!
  29. Spotlight
  30. Amazon Spotlight
  31. Spotlight Ink Dark Moon
  32. Spotlight
  33. Spotlight!
  34. Spotlight Rilke
  35. Spotlight mary oliver
  37. Salon

POEM OF THE DAY

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To be nobody but yourself
in a world that's doing its
best to make you somebody else,
is to fight the hardest battle
you are ever going to fight.
Never stop fighting.

~e. e. cummings
Dying is an art,
like everything else.
I do it exceptionally well.
I do it so it feels like hell.
I do it so it feels real.
I guess you could say I've a call.

~Sylvia Plath

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If I read a book and it
makes my whole body so cold
no fire can ever warm me,
I know that is poetry.

~Emily Dickinson

WB





To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.

~William Blake

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RF

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I --
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference

~Robert Frost

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Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be. Let it be the pioneer on the plain Seeking a home where he himself is free.

(America never was America to me.)

~Langston Hughes
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions.

~Rainer Maria Rilke
When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.

~William Butler Yeats

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