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Leaves

Nikki Giovanni

On a rainy day
When I'm sitting
In a tree
Looking for a friend
I hope you'll be the one
Standing at the root
Holding out your arms
To gently catch
My fall




Quotes of the Day

The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him.

• Oscar Wilde



Poems of the Day
  • Theodore Enslin
    Witch Hazel
    by Theodore Enslin
    This: That is my straight-flying fury. And not this: The dead bone of poetics buried under sacramental clouds of sleep or of wine, or too much awareness of the things that are not there: Ghosts. I ...