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Those Winter Sundays

Written by Robert HaydenThe writer was born in 1913 in Detroit, Michiganand died in 1980. He was America's first black poet laureate.Read more about him HERE and HEREThose Winter SundaysSundays too my...

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Love Sonnet LXXIX

Written by Pablo NerudaThe great Chilean writer was born July 12, 1904and died September 23, 1973.Read about him HERE and HERELove Sonnet LXXIXTranslated versionBy night, Love, tie your heart to mine,...

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Hannah's Banner

Written by Brenda BryantBorn in England in 1931, she now lives inNew South Wales, AustraliaHer blog HERE.Hannah's BannerMy name's Hannah, and I'm handy with a spanner.I can saw and plane and rivet with...

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The Fish

Written by Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)The writer was born in Worcester, Massachusettsin 1911, and died October 6, 1979.The FishI caught a tremendous fishand held him beside the boathalf out of water,...

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We Have Not Long To Love

We Have Not Long To Love By  Tennessee Williams (1911–1983) The writer was born in Columbus, Mississippi. Biography HERE. We have not long to love. Light does not stay. The tender things are those we...

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What Is

By Diana Athill From her memoir: Alive, Alive Oh!: And Other Things That Matter What is. A full moon in a clear sky, waking me to a far-away time, a far-away space existing above or under the...

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