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The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop by Saul Williams
epub |eng | 2006-01-29 | Author:Saul Williams [Williams, Saul]

CHAPTER 4 Noosed by the strings of Jimi’s guitar, I swing, purple-hazed pendulum. Hypnotizing the part of eye that never dies. Look into my: eyes are the windows of the ...
( Category: Anthologies May 3,2014 )
The Divine Comedy: Hell by Dante Alighieri
epub |eng | 1892-04-29 | Author:Dante Alighieri [Alighieri, Dante]

None for the second waited nor the third. Meantime as on I pass’d, one met my sight Whom soon as view’d; "Of him," cried I, "not yet Mine eye hath ...
( Category: Epic April 30,2014 )
Red Bird by Mary Oliver
epub, azw3 |eng | 2008-04-29 | Author:Mary Oliver [Oliver, Mary]

it expressed itself into the most beautiful being. Red All the while I was teaching in the state of Virginia I wanted to see gray fox. Finally I found him. ...
( Category: United States April 30,2014 )
A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson
epub |eng | 1916-04-29 | Author:Robert Louis Stevenson [Stevenson, Robert Louis]

THE UNSEEN PLAYMATE When children are playing alone on the green, In comes the playmate that never was seen. When children are happy and lonely and good, The Friend of ...
( Category: Literary Criticism & Collections April 30,2014 )
After Every War by Boland Eavan
epub |eng | 2013-04-29 | Author:Boland, Eavan

Mein blaues Klavier Ich habe zu Hause ein blaues Klavier Und kenne doch keine Note. Es steht im Dunkel der Kellertür, Seitdem die Welt verrohte. Es spielen Sternenhände vier —Die ...
( Category: Anthologies April 30,2014 )
The Circle Game by Margaret Atwood
epub |eng | 1998-05-31 | Author:Margaret Atwood

for them of going round and round is (faster slower) going round and round ii Being with you here, in this room is like groping through a mirror whose glass ...
( Category: Canadian April 30,2014 )
The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems by Aldous Huxley
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-06-14 | Author:Aldous Huxley [Huxley, Aldous]

WAKING Darkness had stretched its colour, Deep blue across the pane: No cloud to make night duller, No moon with its tarnish stain; But only here and there a star, ...
( Category: Poetry April 30,2014 )
The Forerunner by Kahlil Gibran
epub |eng | 2010-05-23 | Author:Kahlil Gibran [Gibran, Kahlil]

The third poet closed his eyes and stretched his arm upwards, and said, “I touch them with my hand. I feel their wings, like the breath of a sleeping fairy, ...
( Category: Middle Eastern April 30,2014 )
The Garden of the Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
epub, mobi |eng | 1973-01-02 | Author:Kahlil Gibran [Gibran, Kahlil]

And Almustafa, the chosen and the beloved, said: “Why say you: ‘O dead thing’? Have you been thus long in this Garden and know not that there is nothing dead ...
( Category: Inspirational & Religious April 30,2014 )
The Earth Gods by Kahlil Gibran
epub |eng | 1962-01-02 | Author:Kahlil Gibran [Gibran, Kahlil]

THIRD GOD Brothers, my solemn brothers, The girl has found the singer. She sees his raptured face. Panther-like she slips with subtle steps Through rustling vine and fern. And now ...
( Category: Middle Eastern April 30,2014 )
The Madman by Kahlil Gibran
epub |eng | 1927-08-15 | Author:Kahlil Gibran [Gibran, Kahlil]

When the third ant spoke thus the other ants looked at each other and laughed. At that moment the man moved and in his sleep raised his hand and scratched ...
( Category: Inspirational & Religious April 30,2014 )
A Tear and a Smile by Kahlil Gibran
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-07-11 | Author:Kahlil Gibran [Gibran, Kahlil]

My soul gives life to the grapevine and I press its bunches and give the juice to the thirsty. Heaven fills my lamp with oil and I place it at ...
( Category: Inspirational & Religious April 30,2014 )
On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths by Lucia Perillo
epub |eng | | Author:Lucia Perillo

300D When he was flush, we ate dinner at Tung Sing on Central Avenue where my father liked the red-dye-number-toxic bright and shiny food: spareribs, sweet- and-sour pork— what else ...
( Category: Poetry April 29,2014 )
Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth (mouthmark series) by Shire Warsan
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-06-09 | Author:Shire, Warsan [Shire, Warsan]

The instructor tells us that the longest a human being has held their breath under water is 19 minutes and 21 seconds. At home in the bath, my hair swells ...
( Category: African April 28,2014 )
His Day Is Done by Maya Angelou
epub |eng | 2014-01-01 | Author:Maya Angelou [Angelou, Maya]

Yes, Mandela’s day is done, (photo credit 1.10) Yet we, his inheritors, Will open the gates wider For reconciliation. And we will respond Generously to the cries Of the Blacks ...
( Category: Political April 26,2014 )

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