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Passing Time

Maya Angelou

Your skin like dawn
Mine like musk
One paints the beginning
of a certain end.
The other, the end of a
sure beginning.




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It is never too late to be who you want to be.
• George Elliot


Poems of the Day
    Elizabeth Madox Roberts

    Christmas Morning
    If Bethlehem were here today, Or this were very long ago, There wouldn't be a winter time Nor any cold or snow. I'd run out through the garden ...