Kindness
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Kindness

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 29, 20261 min

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This audio poem is a production of poetryfoundation.org.

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the human mind lit by the savannah's ice star and thistle rose.

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This audio poem is a production of poetryfoundation.org. Though blood first shaped us on the climbing wheel, the human mind lit by the savannah's ice star and thistle rose. Your knowing gaze enters a room and opens the day, saying we were made for fun.

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Even the bedazzled brute knows when sunlight falls through leaves across, honed knives on the table. If we can see it push shadows aside, growing closer, are we less broken? A barometer, temperature gauge, a ruler in minus fractions and

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pedigrees, a thingamajig, a probe with an all-seeing eye. What do we need to measure kindness? Every unheld breath, every unkind leap year. Sometimes a sober voice is enough to calm the waters and drive away the false witnesses,

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