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Benjamin Zephaniah

I used to think nurses
Were women,
I used to think police
Were men,
I used to think poets
Were boring,
Until I became one of them.




Quotes of the Day

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
• Francis Bacon


Poems of the Day
  • Henry van Dyke
    The Toiling Of Felix
    by Henry van Dyke
    I PRELUDE Hear a word that Jesus spake Nineteen hundred years ago, Where the crimson lilies blow Round the blue Tiberian lake: There the bread of life He brake,