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A Poem A Day by Romilly Wilde

366 poems day-by-day for a leap year

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      “Yellow Diamonds” by Ketty Nivyabandi, Burundi (1978-)

      August 21, 2026

      we seek freedom

      like yellow diamonds

      thru dust, thru stone

      our naked hands

      bleed on rocks

      we breathe in coal

      but exhale hope

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