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Classic poem of the day

Go , forget me! Why should sorrow
— O'er that brow a shadow fling?
Go, forget me, — and to-morrow
— Brightly smile and sweetly sing.
Smile — though I shall not be near thee.
Sing — though I shall never hear thee.
— May thy soul with pleasure shine,
— Lasting as the gloom of mine.

Like the sun, thy presence glowing
— Clothes the meanest things in light;
And when thou, like him, art going,
— Loveliest ......

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Member poem of the day

We set foot on dry grass at the cockcrow
of a nascent union.
Cheek to cheek as Cupid towers over,
shooting arrows at a dyad draped in fire,
gliding through the tundras of charred weeds,
fin-like petals quake beneath our feet.
The sun unloads its savage heat in torrents,
thermal downpours drench the wedded seam,
blisters left on Sinai soul mate psyches,
rain shadow or bajada by the bye!
Aphrodite’s children from the  pampas,
tee...

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