Biographical Poetry
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NYS Poet Laureate

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Audre Lorde

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Free Form Poetic Offering: A mother's chronology of regret

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If Only Still Echoes

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Of Mice and Men, Grapes of Wrath and more

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John Steinbeck

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Thriving with Parkinson's

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Michael J Fox

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Mood Wrung

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Between American reality and the American dream.

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Bruce Springsteen

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Famous for The Jungle Books, Just So Stories and If

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Rudyard Kipling

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Another side to Christmas... (Please read Author's Notes)

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By Hearthside's Dancing Flames

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Truth Burns Up Error.

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Sojourner Truth

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With faith's pure grace, love will endure...

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Beyond Their Deepest Grief

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Author of The Great Gatsby

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F Scott Fitzgerald

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A rhymed biographical narrative

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Where the Road Would Bend

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Phenomenal Woman

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Dr Maya Angelou

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a free verse

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When the Berlin Wall Went Down

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From Rags to Rhinestones

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Dolly Parton

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Russia's Martyr

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In Honour of Alexei Navalny

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Completed

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Love's Alive! Crown of Sonnets

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The Murder of Sarah Everard

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A Silent Scream

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Live simply so others may simply live

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Saint Mother Teresa

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Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

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A Fantasist

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Hans Christian Andersen

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A Song for You

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The Carpenters

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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and more.

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CS Lewis

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words can never describe

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The Passage of Time

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An elderly stranger gives directions to parents' gravesite

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When the Heart Goes Seeking

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The echoes of mother's sadness after death.

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So Sad

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Queen of Crime

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Agatha Christie

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Free Verse: With Love and Remembrance

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Homeward Bound

Biographical Poetry
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A Free Form Poem

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Her Perfumed Essence

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Cherishing footholds in life's ever-changing landscape

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Wherever Lilacs Grow

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Limericks, Nonsense Verse and The Owl and the Pussy Cat

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Edward Lear

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A winner is a dreamer who never gives up.

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Nelson Mandela

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A family's faith comes in many forms and actions...

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To See Him Safely Home

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One Love, One Heart, One Destiny

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Bob Marley

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King of Horror

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Stephen King

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Free Verse: Of memories and welcomed resolution...

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A Gathering of Roses

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Stand in my shoes

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He Broke My Heart

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a free verse

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Then There Were None

by Gloria ....

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First Lady of the Opposition

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Yulia Navalnaya

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Madness and Mastery

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Virginia Woolf

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Free Verse

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Your Last Night

by Luna

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Dedicated to valor and femininity

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A Life Abundant

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A Kyrielle: To everything there is a season...

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It's Time the Gardens Sleep

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A Star is Born

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Barbra Streisand

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Simply the Best!

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The Late Great Tina Turner

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With a Child's Heart

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Michael Jackson

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A Gothic Great!

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Edgar Allan Poe

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The Father of American Literature

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Mark Twain

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A Natural Queen of Song

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Carole King

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For my sister

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How Her Dying Feels to Me

by MissMerri

Biographical Poetry
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Prose poem and haiku

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Dead Butterfly and Sleeping Giant

by Sis Cat

Biographical Poetry
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Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!

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Dick Van Dyke

Biographical Poetry
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The Lord of the Rings and more

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JRR Tolkien

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Mother's Day Site Contest: A legacy of remembrance and love

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Resonating Echoes

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Ungrateful life meets paradigm shift

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The Depth of Hope

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I Have a Dream.

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Martin Luther King Jnr.

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Solitary Man

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Neil Diamond

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A Swap Quatrain: Just up the road to home

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Childhood Still Echoes

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Unbreakable bond

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The Sargent and I (PART IV)

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Returned To Sender: Service Suspended

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Between These Pages

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The Way We Were

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Not Easily

by Gloria ....

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Mono-rhymed self-assessment

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Normality?

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A tribute poem of unconditional love and support

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An Emptiness Echoes

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aka Anon

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Jane Austen

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Robert Frost

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A Poet of New England

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Lady Sings the Blues

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Billie Holiday

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The tragedy of Alzheimers

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A Life Disrupted

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Father of the Nation

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Mahatma Gandhi

Biographical Poetry
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Dylan Thomas!

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A (Short) Portrait of an Artist

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Playwright of distinction

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Tennessee Williams

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Eighteen years and a thousand miles ago...

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To Never Look Back

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Bad Kitty...

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Piddle Diddle

by closetpoetjester

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The Voice

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Whitney Houston

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The notes may help the decipher on the reflection.

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Mum... Remember?

Biographical Poetry
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The Sergeant and I III

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Of Steel and Spider's Silk

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An Enigma

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Emily Dickinson

Biographical Poetry
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Author of Catcher in the Rye

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JD Salinger

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Rebel and an Icon!

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Willie Nelson

Biographical Poetry
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5/7/7: A mother recalls her newborn's last moments

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Loss and Remembrance

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A Childhood Reminiscence

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The Wooden Fence

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Free Form Verse: Sound Embedded

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On a Good Day Out Here

Biographical Poetry
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Conversion

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T.S. Eliot

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One of Us

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Joan Osborne

Biographical Poetry
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I write to remember this day of unfathomable woe...

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As Dawn Breaks This October Morn

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A rhymed story poem of renewal in the face of loneliness...

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The Gift of Their Song

Biographical Poetry
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Free verse - performance/'slam' style

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Red Poppies

by visionary1234

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Before my birth.

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Was I the Child You Lost?

by Sis Cat

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The End

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To be amongst the Necromancers

by Meia (MESAYERS)

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Response to Sally's Eyes by Debi Marquette

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The Day You Died

by Sally Law

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Through tears to enlightenment

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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A Remembrance, part I

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Audrey Ann, My Sister

by MissMerri

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Visionary, Artist and Poet

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William Blake

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Haibun Suite for the Club (Warning: suicide topic)

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Utterly Alone

by Gypsy Blue Rose

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A Poem

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Damaged Goods

by Curt Mongold

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Living with mental illness is a family affair

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Disappearing Mother-In-Law

by padumachitta

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Free verse

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Old Soul

by ciliverde

Biographical Poetry
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Free Verse (third place winner)

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Sailor on the Sea

by MissMerri

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His restoring balm: Old Mission Peninsula, Traverse City, MI

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In God's Healing Orchard

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Rhyming couplets

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Forever Evolving