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A Poem A Day by Romilly Wilde

366 poems day-by-day for a leap year

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      “My Mother’s Garden in Apia” Fa’alelei Tuilaepa, Samoa (1879–1955)

      April 4, 2026

      She speaks to taro as she plants them—

      like children.

      Each root knows her scent.

      Colonial soldiers marched past once,

      but never saw

      what she was growing.

      From A Poem A Day: Australasia & the Pacific

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