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Sea Calm

Langston Hughes

How still,
How strangely still
The water is today,
It is not good
For water
To be so still that way.




Quotes of the Day

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.
• Jiddu Krishnamurti


Poems of the Day
  • Elizabeth Madox Roberts
    The Sun And A Birch Tree
    by Elizabeth Madox Roberts
    As I came home through Howard's lane, The trees were bending down with rain. A still mist went across their tops, And my coat was powdered gray with drops. Then I looked in the woods to see