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The time by which the candle coughs a feeble flame That is your time. The poem waxes into tears. A mottled face lapses into sleep, almost An eternity embodied in the hollowed cheeks And lips drawn inward memorize a kiss Which faltered on a rainy night. Eyes so tired and deep know not the...

These are summers waking up in snow. Look at the whitened sun. All the violence has turned to calm The sleeping green beneath my hand. Speak to me though blizzards dull the sound. In the midst of the solstice Let me feel your hand. Our ancestors would have raised Their brows and cried: There...

The rise of me and the rise of you Upset the needle. I must have read Somewhere that the natural order Is for you and me to either Sit still or spiral upward From this cold cellar. I was told it is a compensation To be bold To pry the lid To lift the cork And out it goes Ride upon the stream...

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Today, the spring, the Earth's resurrection Startled the plum tree in its late budding. A new sun excites the yard whose tenants Lose the craving for sleep. I watch the land in greening time An old lady rising from a bed Of bones. The chronicles of her age Being figures of sand and snow. What...

University dear I did depart. To go to lands and make a start; Away I went across the sea, I left and bade goodbye to thee. I took with me thy tender care, And love so sweet I came to share. With other sons and daughters true, Who also bade thee their last adieus. To comrades all and mentors...

The Department of Homeland Security said in a statement that data from the Office of Personnel Management and the Interior Department had been compromised. “The FBI is conducting an investigation to identify how and why this occurred,” the statement said. The hackers were believed to be based...

Around the soothing air is passing by, Unseen it comes, and soon it glides away, Afar to meadows green and mountains high, To move the leaves and cause the boughs to sway. It travels far and then returns with joy, Mayhap of doubt and fear that may annoy Each creature here and every living soul...

There be a lady's soul that wanders long Around my abode at night, in dreams she calls. Like love, like the wind's gentle whistling song I hear her come, her foot so lightly falls, And tiptoes on the rug of the floor; Then like a robber stealing, takes from me A kiss that keeps me dreaming...

Alas! the enamoured Moon will send no more Her golden beams along the eastern shore! "No more", the lonesome stars do faintly cry. And then they flicker dim, they mourn and sigh. O Western Wind, now go to find her home, Away to sea you go, ask from every foam Away to vales and mountains, there...