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Classic poem of the day

1.

For what the World admires I'll wish no more,
Nor court that airy nothing of a Name:
Such flitting Shadows let the Proud adore,
Let them be Suppliants for an empty Fame.

2.

If Reason rules within, and keeps the Throne,
While the inferior Faculties obey,
And all her Laws without Reluctance own,
Accounting none more fit, m......

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Member poem of the day

Wheat flour with sugar mixed
emulsified with shortening thick
elixir of vanilla added in
and a few chocolate chips

indigo darkness lies without
distant trucks rumble on
forms and papers to be filled
are what fills my computer screen

stomach empty does call out
aching with an awful need
and my thoughts do resist
thinking of percentage fat

sugar of blood ‘tis not low
sluggish not my thoughts do flow
ye...

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