(12 March 1952 / St. Louis, Missouri)

poet Naomi Shihab Nye
#192 on top 500 poets
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Making A Fist

For the first time, on the road north of Tampico,
I felt the life sliding out of me,
a drum in the desert, harder and harder to hear.
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  • Pranab K Chakraborty (2/2/2013 8:46:00 PM)

    Beautiful. The doctrine to fix the fist of existence. It's a feast of positive thought.........................................................Pranab k c

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  • Savita Tyagi (2/2/2013 10:50:00 AM)

    Very nice! A mother's simple loving conversation can stay with a child for ever.

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  • Felix Nazario (2/8/2008 9:03:00 AM)

    Yea................ >.<

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  • Mika Nakishima (11/27/2007 7:01:00 PM)

    very...nice......really nice...i wish naomi didnt use religions in it tho -_-

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