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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 feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.
• Frank Sinatra


Poems of the Day
  • William Cullen Bryant
    The Strange Lady
    by William Cullen Bryant
    The summer morn is bright and fresh, the birds are darting by, As if they loved to breast the breeze that sweeps the cool dear sky; Young Albert, in the forest's edge, has heard a rustling sound