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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

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
• Martha Washington


Poems of the Day
  • Sara Teasdale
    Morning
    by Sara Teasdale
    I went out on an April morning All alone, for my heart was high, I was a child of the shining meadow, I was a sister of the sky. There in the windy flood of morning