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Poem of The Day
By Jacqueline Woodson
I am born on a Tuesday at University Hospital
Columbus, Ohio,
USA—
a country caught
between Black and White.
I am born not long from the time
or far from the place
where
my great-great-grandparents
worked the deep rich land
unfree
dawn till dusk
unpaid
drank cool water from scooped-out gourds
looked up and...
Columbus, Ohio,
USA—
a country caught
between Black and White.
I am born not long from the time
or far from the place
where
my great-great-grandparents
worked the deep rich land
unfree
dawn till dusk
unpaid
drank cool water from scooped-out gourds
looked up and...
Poem of The Day
By Rosebud Ben-Oni
Personification is inevitable. It goes hand
-in-hand with reinventing the wheel.
It reeks of misfortune. Gives a mess
its mass. Is why slime
never forgets
its shapelessness,
while memory
foam must, in what doesn’t leave
an impression. My memory spins
our negative capabilities round,
round, like a record the dead
once...
-in-hand with reinventing the wheel.
It reeks of misfortune. Gives a mess
its mass. Is why slime
never forgets
its shapelessness,
while memory
foam must, in what doesn’t leave
an impression. My memory spins
our negative capabilities round,
round, like a record the dead
once...
Poem of The Day
By Carole Boston Weatherford
It was written in the stars:
A child is born.
From that moment on,
I only had eyes for you.
What a diff’rence a day made.
Since I fell for you,
Zing! went the strings of my heart.
You’re so nice to come home to:
Make believe. Tea for two.
Magic moments.
I’m glad there is you.
Just a-sittin’ and a-rockin,
Swinging on a star,
I…
A child is born.
From that moment on,
I only had eyes for you.
What a diff’rence a day made.
Since I fell for you,
Zing! went the strings of my heart.
You’re so nice to come home to:
Make believe. Tea for two.
Magic moments.
I’m glad there is you.
Just a-sittin’ and a-rockin,
Swinging on a star,
I…
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French in origin, a genre of long narrative poetry about medieval courtly culture and secret love. It triumphed in English with tales of chivalry such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Geoffrey Chaucer’s “The Knight’s Tale” and Troilus and Criseyde.
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