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Poem of the DayBy Natasha Trethewey1In which I try to decipherthe story it tells,this syntax of monumentsflanking the old courthouse:...
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poemBy Maya AngelouA free bird leapson the back of the windand floats downstreamtill the current endsand dips his wingin the orange sun raysand dares to claim the sky.But a bird that stalksdown his narrow cagecan seldom see throughhis bars of ragehis wings...
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poemBy James Weldon JohnsonLift every voice and singTill earth and heaven ring,Ring with the harmonies of Liberty;Let our rejoicing riseHigh as the listening skies,Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.Sing a song full of the faith that...
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poemBy Dudley Randall“It seems to me,” said Booker T.,“It shows a mighty lot of cheekTo study chemistry and GreekWhen Mister Charlie needs a handTo hoe the cotton on his land,And when Miss Ann looks for a cook,Why stick your nose inside a...
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poemBy John ShoptawUnlike the monarch, thoughthe asteroid also slippedquietly from its colonyon its annular migrationbetween Jupiter and Mars,enticed maybe byour planetary pollenas the monarch by my neighbor’sslender-leaved milkweed.Unlike it even whenthe fragrant Cretaceousatmosphere meteorizedthe airborne rock,flaring it into what mighthave looked to...
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poemBy Adrienne SuWhat would the lovely Yang Guifei,concubine to the emperor,a Helen of China, have madeof our gleaming grocery stores,always awash in berries, melons,tangerines? Her passion for lychees,rushed north by a chain of horsemen,laid waste to a dynasty.She must have understood,at least...
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