Showing posts with label HUGHES Langston. Show all posts
Showing posts with label HUGHES Langston. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 21, 2015

It's April

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I know--April is two-thirds gone already, but as the old cliche goes--better late than never.  Following are several poems about April, and ...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Robert Louis Stevenson and Langston Hughes: Two points of view

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Requiem Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die,    And I laid me down with a wil...
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Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Langston Hughes: two poems

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Empty House It was in the empty house That I came to dwell And in the empty house I found an empty hell. Why is it that an empty hou...
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Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Langston Hughes: Does it matter?

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New Year The years Fall like dry leaves From the top-less tree Of eternity. Does it matter That another leaf has fallen? -- Langsto...
Monday, August 6, 2012

Langston Hughes: Looking for Joy

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Joy I went to look for Joy , Slim, dancing Joy, Gay, laughing Joy, Bright-eyed Joy-- And I found her Driving the butcher's cart ...
Sunday, April 15, 2012

Several Spring Poems

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I guess it's a truism that poetry is not about something but rather about the poet's perception of something. Glancing at the sever...
Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Langston Hughes: Feb. 1, 1902--May 22, 1967

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Some short early poems by Langston Hughes. Cabaret Does a jazz band ever sob? They say a jazz band's gay. Yet as the vulgar dancers whir...
Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Langston Hughes: some short poems gathered at random

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The following poems come from The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes . These are the ones that I stopped to read a second time as I browse...
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Friday, September 23, 2011

Fall Equinox

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Like last year, the first day of autumn, or the Fall Equinox, doesn't seem much like fall here in Tucson, where the temperature is expec...
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Sunday, May 22, 2011

In Memoriam: Langston Hughes Feb. 1, 1902--May 22, 1967

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Afro-American Fragment So long, So far away Is Africa. Not even memories alive Save those that history books create, Save those that songs B...
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Sunday, April 3, 2011

Langston Hughes--"Troubled Woman"

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A word painting: Troubled Woman She stands In the quiet darkness, This troubled woman Bowed by Weariness and pain Like an Autumn flower In t...
Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Langston Hughes: Feb 1, 1902--May 22, 1967

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Today is Langston Hughes' birthday: Harlem What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a ...
Monday, February 1, 2010

Langston Hughes: February 1, 1902--May 22, 1967

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The following quotes are from the Wikipedia entry on Langston Hughes. "James Mercer Langston Hughes , (February 1, 1902 – May 22, 1967)...
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