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Generation Gap

Chinua Achebe

A son’s arrival
is the crescent moon
too new too soon to lodge
the man’s returning. His
feast of reincarnation
must await the moon’s
ripening at the naming
ceremony of his
grandson.


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Quotes of the Day

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
• Abraham Lincoln


Poems of the Day
  • Richard Hugo
    Degrees Of Gray In Philipsburg
    by Richard Hugo
    You might come here Sunday on a whim. Say your life broke down. The last good kiss you had was years ago. You walk these streets laid out by the insane, past hotels