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Classic poem of the day

Come away, come away, little fly!
Don't disturb the sweet calm of love's nest:
If you do, I protest you shall die,
And your tomb be that beautiful breast.

Don't tickle the girl in her sleep,
Don't cause so much beauty to sigh;
If she frown, all the Graces will weep;
If she weep, half the Graces will die.

Pretty fly! do not tickle her so;
How delighted to teaze her you seem;
Titillation is dangerous, I know,
And may ca......

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Member poem of the day

by DavidKM

Ilium, Thou Art Forgotten and Eternal



Humans passed furiously, as they had lived;

Earth’s biosphere quickly recovered,

one critter or another learning to consume or wear

nearly every thing they’d been pleased to make.

Vertebrates had taken a hit,

that small branch of the Tree,

too close to humanity, perhaps,

but what remained were the great evolvers.

Mice...

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