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Classic poem of the day

We make the world in which we live
By what we gather and what we give,
By our daily deeds and the things we say,
By what we keep or we cast away.

We make our world by the beauty we see
In a skylark's song or a lilac tree,
In a butterfly's wing, in the pale moon's rise,
And the wonder that lingers in midnight skies.

We make our world by the life we lead,
By the friends we have, by the books we read,
By the pity we show in t......

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Member poem of the day

OUT

She always had a sense of being trapped
All doors locked, shuttered windows too
That smothered by an old blanket feeling
To make her escape was her only dream
From a cloying presence, sickly as cream
And those deep scratches on the ceiling
Never quite sure what was false or true
But her submissive mind finally snapped

She turned to see the house she had left
For the first time, from outside its walls
Uncertain how she had ...

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