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Tanka

Sonia Sanchez

i kneel down like a
collector of jewels before
you. i am singing
one long necklace of love my
mouth a sapphire of grapes.

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Sonia Sanchez




Quotes of the Day

Wise people have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it.
• Aristotle


Poems of the Day
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    Eavesdropper
    by Sylvia Plath
    Your brother will trim my hedges! They darken your house, Nosy grower, Mole on my shoulder, To be scratched absently, To bleed, if it comes to that. The stain of the tropics