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Prevision

by Aline Kilmer

I know you are too dear to stay;
   You are so exquisitely sweet:
My lonely house will thrill some day
   To echoes of your eager feet.

I hold your words within my heart,
   So few, so infinitely dear;
Watching your fluttering hands I start
   At the corroding touch of fear.

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Ambition

by Aline Kilmer

Kenton and Deborah, Michael and Rose,
These are fine children as all the world knows,
But into my arms in my dreams every night
Come Peter and Christopher, Faith and Delight.

Kenton is tropical, Rose is pure white,
Deborah shines like a star in the night;
Michael's round eyes are as blue as the sea,
And nothing on earth could be dearer to me.

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The Months

by Sara Coleridge

January brings the snow,
makes our feet and fingers glow.

February brings the rain,
Thaws the frozen lake again.

March brings breezes loud and shrill,
stirs the dancing daffodil.

April brings the primrose sweet,

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Duino Elegies: The First Elegy

by Rainer Maria Rilke

Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels'
hierarchies? and even if one of them suddenly
pressed me against his heart, I would perish
in the embrace of his stronger existence.
For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror
which we are barely able to endure and are awed
because it serenely disdains to annihilate us.
Each single angel is terrifying.
And so I force myself, swallow and hold back
the surging call of my dark sobbing.

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Shema

by Primo Levi

You who live secure
In your warm houses
Who return at evening to find
Hot food and friendly faces:

Consider whether this is a man,
Who labours in the mud
Who knows no peace
Who fights for a crust of bread
Who dies at a yes or a no.

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Recent Child Poems

Rise Sally, Rise

by Evelyn Judy Buehler

She had adorable dimples in her cheeks, and loved gazing at magenta stars;
Like a spaceship in black pearl space, when halfway to glittering, red Mars.

Only eight years old, with pigtails, she still dreamed of being an astronaut;
Like a cool, ice blue comet, traversing space, with no chance of being caught!

Space had become her one great love, for she possessed a rich imagination;
And children would one day sing of her, when they were dancin' and playin.'

She adored all the nursery rhymes, but especially dancing games, of sparkle.

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Imagination Awakening

by Evelyn Judy Buehler

.Gold butterfly dreams
came late one mulberry night
Pretty, pale moon scenes.
She'd drifted off at twilight
with tome on a magic flight.

Stars became the Night (what do I do with your love?)

by Nyx Grace

Tiny feet, an even tinier jump
something caught this
Little Dove's eyes.
starry eyes
her smile turns blinding
as she tugs your sleeve
to draw your gaze.

resounding 'no',
followed by a stern "later",

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horario estelar, dios estelar

by atef ayadi

amazon,
un niño llamado bezos,
el bosque de los sueños
se comió el mapa.
nada está lejos,
todo es un estante.

puedes vender,
pero pagas para ser visto.
la visibilidad se subasta

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Emergency

by Evelyn Judy Buehler

Polly Pleasance was seven years old, like the decade soon is going;
She had so many pretty dollies, like deep purple pansies, showing.

Polly took care of her dear friends, for love's always taken seriously;
Buying doll clothes with her allowance, like night, adorned deliriously!

They were admired, and the envy of friends. She had so many dolls!
As magenta shimmers in twilit moonlight, whilst blue earth revolves.

Polly still believed in fairytales and magic, like many others her age;

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