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won’t you celebrate with me

Lucille Clifton, U.S.

Lucille Clifton, 1936-2010, U.S. won’t you celebrate with mewhat i have shaped intoa kind of life? i had no model.born in babylonboth nonwhite and womanwhat …

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Hurricane

daily poem, U.S., Yona Harvey

By Yona Harvey, U.S. Four tickets left, I let her go—Firstborn into a hurricane. I thought she escapedThe floodwaters. No—but her Head is empty of …

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Let America Be America Again

Langston Hughes, U.S.

By Langston Hughes, 1902-1967, U.S. Let America be America again.Let it be the dream it used to be.Let it be the pioneer on the plainSeeking …

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Who Said It Was Simple

Audre Lorde, daily poem, U.S.

By Audre Lorde, 1934-1992, U.S. There are so many roots to the tree of anger that sometimes the branches shatter before they bear.Sitting in Nedicksthe …

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Barter

daily poem, Sara Teasdale, U.S.

By Sara Teasdale, 1884-1933, U.S. Life has loveliness to sell,     All beautiful and splendid things,Blue waves whitened on a cliff,     Soaring fire that …

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We Wear The Mask

daily poem, Paul Laurence Dunbar, U.S.

By Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1872-1906, U.S. We wear the mask that grins and lies,It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—This debt we pay to …

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Incident

Countee Cullen, daily poem, U.S.

By Countee Cullen, 1903-1946, U.S. Once riding in old Baltimore,Heart-filled, head-filled with glee,I saw a BaltimoreanKeep looking straight at me.Now I was eight and very …

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The Virus

daily poem, Jericho Brown, U.S.

By Jericho Brown, 2018, U.S. Dubbed undetectable, I can’t killThe people you touch, and I can’tBlur your viewOf the pansies you’ve plantedOutside the window, meaningI …

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Little Prayer

daily poem, Danez Smith, U.S.

By Danez Smith, 2017, U.S. let ruin end here let him find honeywhere there was once a slaughter let him enter the lion’s cage& find …

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A Litany For Survival

Audre Lorde, daily poem, U.S.

By Audre Lorde, 1934-1992, U.S. For those of us who live at the shorelinestanding upon the constant edges of decisioncrucial and alonefor those of us …

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