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  May 2018     1 year ago

Submitted Poems 11 total

I, Too

I, too, sing America.

I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow...

by Langston Hughes

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added 6 years ago
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Distress Sale

Early one Sunday morning everything outside -
the child's canopy bed and vanity table,
the sofa, end tables and lamps, boxes
of assorted books and records. We carried out
kitchen items, a clock radio, hanging
clothes, a big easy chair
with them from...

by Raymond Carver

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added 6 years ago
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For Selma

In places like
Selma, Alabama,
Kids say,
  In places like
  Chicago and New York...
In places like
Chicago and New York
Kids say,
  In places like
  London and Paris...
In places like
London and Paris
Kids say,
  In places like
  ...

by Langston Hughes

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added 6 years ago
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You

Your Eyes

Your Eyes
Mystic pools
Of beauteous light.
Golden brown
In color
Deep,
Yet, amber clear.
Unshadowed
By a frown,
Fathomless,
Whereign
My senses
Drown.
Your Eyes.

Your...

by Rudolph Valentino

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added 6 years ago
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Dream Boogie

Good morning, daddy!
Ain't you heard
The boogie-woogie rumble
Of a dream deferred?

Listen closely:
You'll hear their feet
Beating out and beating out a —

You think
It's a happy...

by Langston Hughes

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added 6 years ago
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