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A Poem A Day by Romilly Wilde

366 poems day-by-day for a leap year

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      “Letter to a Distant Love” by Lou Andreas-Salomé, Germany (1861-1937)

      August 6, 2026

      I wrote your name in wind and rain—

      The clouds erased it, not my pain.

      If longing were a steady ship—

      I’d drift to you, lip after lip.

      From A Poem A Day: All Continental Europe

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