Maggie Smith
A poignant and widely celebrated poem by Maggie Smith.
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“I don't know much about poetry, but I know this is a good one. Beautiful, sad and true.”
“This poem is therapy.”
“grounded and hopeful in a way I can accept for myself”
One Art
Wild Geese
Learn a Poem This Week (NYT Poetry Challenge)
Meditations in an Emergency
Mother
Little Sleep's-Head Sprouting Hair in the Moonlight
Poetry Foundation
Alone
"The Summer Day" by Mary Oliver
What the Living Do
Poetry Unbound
What Resembles the Grave But Isn't
