Classic poem of the day
By the shores of Gitchee Gumee,
By the shining Big-Sea-Water,
Stood the wigwam of Nokomis
Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis.
Dark behind it rose the forest,
Rose the black and gloomy pine trees,
Rose the firs with cones upon them;
Bright before it beat the water,
Beat the clear and sunny water,
Beat the shining Big-Sea-Water.
There the wrinkled old Nokomis
Nursed the little Hiawatha,
Rocked him in his linden cradle,
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Member poem of the day
sitting there
among the trees
on riverbank
littered with trash
it is filled
with many things
like a kaleidoscope view
of someone’s life
all that is left
of hopes and dreams
fragments of a life
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