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There is a stillness here, a meditation on memory and loss. Little autumn details carry feelings, hold a relationship in the mind

The speaker caught in today, caught between yesterday & tomorrow

"Forever will be a day like this / strung perfectly on the necklace of days"

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#poemoftheday

so much depends
upon

a red wheel
barrow

glazed with rain
water

beside the white
chickens

–William Carlos Williams was born #OnThisDay in 1883. #PoemOfTheDay https://bit.ly/4r4BcIf

Watch! Watch them. But from eleven rows back, through ever-moving
water, that hazy one-way mirror that is watching a girl

–Summer LoPriore with today's #PoemOfTheDay
https://bit.ly/4iklYN6

#poemoftheday is "When the Leather Is A Whip" by Martín Espada

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Today is International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer

A magnificent poem railing against anti-fact, anti-truth, anti-science politics

Nature keeps speaking even when we refuse to listen

But eventually it will stop & we will be left with the silence of bees

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#poemoftheday

‘las hojas de otońo caen
recuerdos de verano.’

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Today is International Democracy Day & in a week I will be in Athens, the Agora, the birthplace of democracy

The word translated means ‘the power of the people’ – not some people, all of the people

Oh, how the last 7 lines in this poem speak of the truth of democracy

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And God! to dwell in the town
In these springlike summer days,
On my brow an unfading frown
And hate in my heart always—

–Claude McKay with today's #PoemoftheDay https://bit.ly/3SSFeqG