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National Poetry Month: April 11-20

Spring by Pablo Neruda

El pájaro ha venido
a dar la luz :

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God by Boris Slutsky

We all walked under god.
We were by god's very side.

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Unnatural State of the Unicorn by Yusef Komunyakaa

Introduce me first as a man.
Don’t mention superficial laurels

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No Limitations by Anarielys Santana Laureano

I should never limit the possibilities that can exist in my future

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If by Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;

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Homage to  My Hips by Lucille Clifton

these hips are big hips
they need space to

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Dreams by Langston Hughes

Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die

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Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein

There is a place where the sidewalk ends
And before the street begins,

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Transmute by Catalina Lassen

Deep into November and Autumn still
lingers like smoke, rough and   woody,

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What Are Years by Marianne Moore  

What is our innocence,
what is our guilt?

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