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The Last Word

Nikki Grimes

I am a door of metaphor
waiting to be opened.
You’ll find no lock, no key.
All are free to enter, at will.
Simply step over the threshold.
Remember to dress for travel, though.
Visitors have been known
to get carried away.




Quotes of the Day

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.

• Salvatore Quasimodo



Poems of the Day
  • Carl Sandburg
    The Shovel Man
    by Carl Sandburg
    ON the street Slung on his shoulder is a handle half way across, Tied in a big knot on the scoop of cast iron Are the overalls faded from sun and rain in the ditches;