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Sat, 25.08.2018

FIVE HAIKU’S by Richard Wright

1. I am nobody: A red sinking autumn sun Took my name away. 2. I give permission For this slow spring rain to soak The violet beds. 3. With a twitching nose A dog reads a telegram On a wet tree trunk. 4. Burning autumn leaves, I yearn to make the bonfire Bigger and bigger. […]

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Thu, 24.09.2009

BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME by Richard Wright.

And one morning while in the woods I stumbled suddenly upon the thing, Stumbled upon it in a grassy clearing guarded by scaly oaks and elms.
And the sooty details of the rose, thrusting themselves between the world and me. There was a design of white bones slumbering forgottenly upon a cushion of ashes.
There was a charred stump of a sapling pointing a blunt finger accusingly at the sky.

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New Poem Each Day

Poetry Corner

At home we pray every morning, we get down on our knees in a circle, holding hands, holding Love, and we sing hallelujah. Then we go into the world. Daddy speeds,... ULYSSES by Gwendolyn Brooks.
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