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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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A poem inspired by reconciliation

Canada, daily poem, Patricia Heintzman

By Patricia Heintzman, published in the Squamish Chief, July 31, 2017. (Source: https://www.squamishchief.com/opinion/columnists/column-a-poem-inspired-by-reconciliation-1.21387842) Truth. Reconciliation. Is more than an apology and deprecation, a prayer to …

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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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Cross

daily poem, Langston Hughes, U.S.

By Langston Hughes. Submitted by Ed and Ada Smith of Windsor. My old man’s a white old manAnd my old mother’s black.If ever I cursed …

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Echolalia

Canada, daily poem, Ian Williams

By Ian Williams, b.1979, Canada. Once one gets what one wants one no longer wants it. One no longer wants what? One no longer wants …

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