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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

  &n...

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