Mastodawn

The Road goes ever on and on,
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say.

[J.R.R. Tolkien]

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Wil Hoekstra 🔻15h ago

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Reino 1d ago

[#RandomPoem 757]

Puck:

If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumber’d here
While these visions did appear.
And this weak and idle theme,
No more yielding but a dream,
[...]
And, as I am an honest Puck,
If we have unearned luck
Now to ‘scape the serpent’s tongue,
We will make amends ere long;
Else the Puck a liar call;
So, good night unto you all.
Give me your hands, if we be friends,
And Robin shall restore amends.

[Shakespeare]

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Reino 2d ago

[#RandomPoem 756]

Garment Workers’ Strike

Their fingers rested. Listlessly in the chairs
At all machines their bodies sagged with pain
In one ebb tide. Futility was theirs
[...]
At last they rested. With the work undone
They rose together, quelling even anger
In a fixed crusade and marching out as one
Exploited mass whose hands could work no longer.
A few were pregnant, each with life-starved eyes
Moved with the final strength of one who dies.

[Mary N.S. Whitely]

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