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Words for the Mica Screen

by Wang Wei

Wang Wei

Unfold this screen
Against the light,
Show hills and streams
Nature painted.




Quotes of the Day

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
• Zelda Fitzgerald


Poems of the Day
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