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Mark Money 13 December 2012

when are you going to post some more poems? ? ? ?

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Mark Money 16 October 2012

the message said i had to enter at least 20 characters in the comment box but all i can say is wow. just wow.

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POEM OF THE DAY
Earth And Man

I

On her great venture, Man,
Earth gazes while her fingers dint the breast
Which is his well of strength, his home of rest,
And fair to scan.

II

More aid than that embrace,
That nourishment, she cannot give: his heart
Involves his fate; and she who urged the start
Abides the race.

III

For he is in the lists
Contentious with the elements, whose dower
First sprang him; for swift vultures to devour
If he desists.

IV

His breath of instant thirst
Is warning of a creature matched with strife,
To meet it as a bride, or let fall life
On life's accursed.

V


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