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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

One starts an action simply because one must do something

• T. S. Eliot



Poems of the Day
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    Afternoon
    by Dorothy Parker
    When I am old, and comforted, And done with this desire, With Memory to share my bed And Peace to share my fire, I'll comb my hair in scalloped bands Beneath my laundered cap,