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Bouquet

Langston Hughes

Gather quickly
Out of darkness
All the songs you know
And throw them at the sun
Before they melt
Like snow




Quotes of the Day

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

• Plato



Poems of the Day
  • Louise Gluck
    Siren
    by Louise Gluck
    I became a criminal when I fell in love. Before that I was a waitress. I didn't want to go to Chicago with you. I wanted to marry you, I wanted Your wife to suffer.