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Monday 18 March 2024
Sahara - Mohammed Ebnu
What lies behind
those walls
inscribed with your name
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Sunday 17 March 2024
The Unity of Faith - Vemana
Kine are of divers colours, but they all milk the same;
Altar flowers are not alike, but worship is one flame;
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Saturday 16 March 2024
From: The Divine Pymander - Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus
A book have I written —
Not mine, but the book of the world;
For her sake
And the sake of her God,
Have I written these things.
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Friday 15 March 2024
Lust is loss - Kimbi Bismark
Lust has fathered children, who are lost
In nature, they infect the land like locust,
They have assaulted this gorgeous grape
And other fruits, without mercy, they rape.
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Thursday 14 March 2024
An awakening - Alice Furlong
O Spring will waken the heart of me
With the rapture of blown violets!
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Wednesday 13 March 2024
If my father were to speak at last - Loic Ekinga
Son,
I never imagined anything I planted
On my way here would grow as tall as you did
Let glory return to God—
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Monday 11 March 2024
Since then I go - Birago Diop
Since then I go
I follow the pathways
the pathways and roads
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Sunday 10 March 2024
Wilt thou love God as He thee? - John Donne
Wilt thou love God as He thee? then digest,
My soul, this wholesome meditation,
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Saturday 9 March 2024
Poplar Trees - Jovan Dučić
Why tonight the poplars rustle that way?
So passionately, so strange? Why they rustle so?
The yellow moon slowly sets behind the hills,
Distant and black, like a foreboding; and dreams
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Friday 8 March 2024
News Paper - Laxmi Prasad Devkota
Newspaper covers world news
Also expresses its own views
But tilts like leaning tower of Pisa.
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