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Eric • 1 card
the death of a language would mean the death of its poetry.
Andre Alexis • Fifteen Dogs
the children we were, the children who are still within us, the children who understand wonderland, who know the truth about stories, save the adults, who have forgotten those truths.
Salman Rushdie • Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020
Roussan Camille (1912-1961) est né à Jacmel dans le sud d’Haïti. Il fait partie de cette génération de poètes qui ont vécu comme une « gifle » l’occupation américaine du pays (1915-1934). Ce sont des jeunes gens qui avaient une idée plutôt mondaine de la poésie, il est vrai, à une époque où les poètes en Haïti terminaient leur course plus souvent d
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Lake of the Isles
poets.org
Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here,
And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,
Must ask permission to know it and be known.
The forest breathes. Listen. It answers,
I have made this place around you.
If you leave it, you may come back again, saying Here.
No two trees are the same to Raven.
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Caged Bird BY MAYA ANGELOU
A free bird leaps
on the back of the wind
and floats downstream
till the current ends
and dips his wing
in the orange sun rays
and dares to claim the sky.
But a bird that stalks
down his narrow cage
can seldom see through
his bars of rage
his wings are clipped and
his feet are tie
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Deathraven • 6 cards