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Tonight's Poet Corner: Red Dye

Red Dye by Belinda Roddie   You took red dye and you took your golden hair and made rubies not as sparkly, but still polished hue so simple light as sunrise on blue-spun sky Ruby and gold together makes you beautiful always forever

Today's OneWord: Profound

To be profound, you must not try to be profound. Don't use big words. Don't try to speak in meter or in long phrases. That was Shakespeare's job. That's eloquence. Eloquence is the petals of the rose, fragile, pretty, and usually withering rather quickly. Profundity is the bud when it's closed off - modest, humble, but capable of withstanding an entire hurricane of denial.