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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

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
• Henry Drummond


Poems of the Day
  • Carl Sandburg
    Joy
    by Carl Sandburg
    Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands And take it when it runs by, As the Apache dancer Clutches his woman. I have seen them Live long and laugh loud, Sent on singing, singing,