Daily Poems

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  ChameleonLeap Senior

  2 years ago
  Day 43 — Dawn Revisited
  
  Imagine you wake up
  with a second chance: The blue jay
  hawks his pretty wares
  and the oak still stands, spreading
  glorious shade. If you don't look back,
  
  the future never happens.
  How good to rise in sunlight,
  in the prodigal smell of biscuits -
  eggs and sausage on the grill.
  The whole sky is yours
  
  to write on, blown open
  to a blank page. Come on,
  shake a leg! You'll never know
  who's down there, frying those eggs,
  if you don't get up and see.
  
  - Rita Dove
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  ChameleonLeap Senior

  2 years ago
  Day 44 — Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie
  
  This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks,
  Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight,
  Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic,
  Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms.
  Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighboring ocean
  Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest.
  
  This is the forest primeval; but where are the hearts that beneath it
  Leaped like the roe, when he hears in the woodland the voice of the huntsman
  Where is the thatch-roofed village, the home of Acadian farmers,
  Men whose lives glided on like rivers that water the woodlands,
  Darkened by shadows of earth, but reflecting an image of heaven?
  Waste are those pleasant farms, and the farmers forever departed!
  Scattered like dust and leaves, when the mighty blasts of October
  Seize them, and whirl them aloft, and sprinkle them far o'er the ocean
  Naught but tradition remains of the beautiful village of Grand-Pré.
  
  Ye who believe in affection that hopes, and endures, and is patient,
  Ye who believe in the beauty and strength of woman's devotion,
  List to the mournful tradition still sung by the pines of the forest;
  List to a Tale of Love in Acadie, home of the happy.
  
  - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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