For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly. ✨ Langston Hughe…

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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly. ✨ Langston Hughes (2002). The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, p.66, University of Missouri Press
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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly. ✨ Langston Hughes (2002). The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, p.66, University of Missouri Press

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