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And the sun had on a crown
Wrought of gilded thistledown,
And a scarf of velvet vapor
And a raveled rainbow gown;
And his tinsel-tangled hair
Tossed and lost upon the air
Was glossier and flossier
Than any anywhere.
James Whitcomb Riley
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All the things we hide in water
Hoping we won't see them go.
Forests growing under water
Press against the ones we know.
Annie Finch
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Don't compare yourself to anyone. Be happy to be the wonder unique, very special person that you are.
Susan Polis Schutz
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Oh, hear Him within you speaking this infinite love, moving like some divine and audible leaven, lifting the sky of the soul with expansions of light, shaping new heights and new depths, and, at your stir of assent, spreading the mountains with flame, filling the hollows with Heaven.
Jessica Powers
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For a woman to be a lesbian in a male-supremacist, capitalist, misogynist, racist, homophobic, imperialist culture, such as that of North America, is an act of resistance.
Cheryl Clarke
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ABOMUNISTS JOIN NOTHING BUT THEIR HANDS OR LEGS, OR OTHER SAME.
Bob Kaufman
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Even
After
All this time
The Sun never says to the Earth, "You owe me." Look
What happens
With a love like that,
It lights the whole sky.
Daniel Ladinsky
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I am called "Venus Hottentot."
I left Capetown with a promise
of revenue: half the profits
and my passage home: A boon!
Master's brother proposed the trip;
the magistrate granted me leave
I would return to my family
a duchess, with watered-silk
dresses and money to grow food.
Elizabeth Alexander (poet)
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Those four black girls blown up
in that Alabama church
remind me of five hundred
middle passage blacks,
in a net, under water
in Charleston harbor
so redcoats wouldn't find them.
Can't find what you can't see
can you?
Michael S. Harper
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I am like a table
that eats its own legs off
because it's fallen
in love with the floor.
Cate Marvin
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It is as if the ordinary language we use every day has a hidden set of signals, a kind of secret code.
William Stafford (poet)
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My boyhood saw
Greek islands floating over Harvard Square.
Horace Gregory
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Strange with women when They find out you love men More than they Never let you kiss them On the mouth again.
John Wieners
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The splendor of Silence,—of snow-jeweled hills and of ice.
Ingram Crockett
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In the false country of the zoo
Grief is well represented there
From those continents of the odd
And outmoded, Africa and Australia.
Jean Garrigue
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A weapon that comes down as still
As snowflakes fall upon the sod;
But executes a freeman's will,
As lightning does the will of God;
And from its force nor doors nor locks
Can shield you,—'t is the ballot-box.
John Pierpont
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My best performances were when I was 30 years old, and I was a vegan.
Carl Lewis
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How can I appreciate light from an aging
sun shining through new configurations neither pine
nor ash? How can I extol the nuturing
fragrances from the spires, the spicules
of a landscape not yet formed or seeded?
Pattiann Rogers
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I can hear the sizzle of newborn stars, and know anything of meaning, of the fierce magic emerging here. I am witness to flexible eternity, the evolving past, and I know we will live forever, as dust or breath in the face of stars, in the shifting pattern of winds.
Joy Harjo
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It is easy to be humble when a greater is preferred; but when an inferior is lifted high above our heads, how can we bear it?
Constance Fenimore Woolson
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Courage is the only asset That will conquer in the fight If you have the will to mass it On the lines of truth and right.
John Wallace Crawford
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A million butterflies rose up from South America, All together, and flew in a gold storm toward Spain...
Winfield Townley Scott
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In the morning I get out of bed, I brush my teeth, I wash my face, I get dressed in the clothes I like best. I want to be good to myself.
Matthew Dickman
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Girl, when he gives you kisses twain, use one, and let the other stay; And hoard it, for moons die, red fades, and you may need a kiss—some day.
Ridgely Torrence
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I'm saying that the domain of poetry includes both oral & written forms, that poetry goes back to a pre-literate situation & would survive a post-literate situation, that human speech is a near-endless source of poetic forms, that there has always been more oral than written poetry, & that we can no longer pretend to a knowledge of poetry if we deny its oral dimension.
Jerome Rothenberg
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