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A Poem A Day by Romilly Wilde

366 poems day-by-day for a leap year

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      “Song of the Hummingbird” Humberto Ak’abal, Guatemala (1952-2019)

      April 12, 2026

      The hummingbird drinks fire

      from the flowers,

      carries messages of the gods

      across the morning sky.

      From A Poem A Day: Latin America

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