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Poetry: Secrets

• 1 of 134

  by Carol Gioia

  Rushing into life too soon,
  resembling a tiny wounded bird.
  The doctors called her premature,
  I called her "my heart."

  fragile,

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• 2 of 134

  by Dolores Moore

  I wish you had not told me
  Things I didn't want to know.
  Or taken me, in confidence,
  To where I shouldn't go.
  You shared deceit

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• 3 of 134

  by Paul Curtis

  BENEATH THE WEEPING WILLOW TREE

  Like the star-crossed lovers,

  Romeo and Juliet,

  They come from feuding kin

  And

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• 4 of 134

  by Gemma Wiseman

  Strange Voices

  
  
  

  On the lower shelf
  Framed in thoughts from far places
  Just a few poetic threads
  From a new heartbeat
  A new grace
  So

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• 5 of 134

  by Robert Levine

  THE HIDDEN COURTYARD

  Two tall russet brick houses extend
  back deep from the street: rounded wings
  honeycombed with apartments

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