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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.




Quotes of the Day

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
• Ferdinand Foch


Poems of the Day
  • Sylvia Plath
    Cut
    by Sylvia Plath
    What a thrill - My thumb instead of an onion. The top quite gone Except for a sort of hinge Of skin, A flap like a hat, Dead white. Then that red plush. Little pilgrim,