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Classic poem of the day

To this the Boule-bearer

Doe you heare my friends? to whom did you sing all this now?
pardon me onely that I aske you, for I doe not looke for an-
swere; Ile answer my selfe, I know it is now such a time as the
Saturnalls for all the World, that every man stands under the eaves
of his own hat, and sings what please him; that's the right, and
the liberty of it. Now you sing of god Comus here the bellie-god;
I say it is well......

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Member poem of the day

Wandering the roads.  It has me under a spell even at this juncture in my life.
Even when spiked brambles
scrape my eyelids or those tender foot soles are  being  twisted by tooth-like stones.  Quaint and angular they cluster mischievously among
green shoots that litter every footpath.
They lie in wait, in ambush for the absent-minded unsuspecting venturer.
It goes with the territory for this seasoned  footman of the road.
The labyrinthin...

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