I haven‘t written poetry in what feels like forever, but these verses are unlocking something in me and I‘m finally scratching down a few lines and ideas! It‘s such a relief! ✍🏼🗒️🤍
I haven‘t written poetry in what feels like forever, but these verses are unlocking something in me and I‘m finally scratching down a few lines and ideas! It‘s such a relief! ✍🏼🗒️🤍
#PoetryMatters - World: What is there to say when the words of a poem written one hundred years ago still ring true? The loveliness of this place escapes us. We continue to only DREAM of a world like this...each person hoping and wondering when. When indeed?
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A less famous #dream poem of Hughes. He used the word a lot. #poetrymatters @TheSpineView
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The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes found in the tagged book.
Read the full poem here: https://poets.org/poem/weary-blues
Book mail! Now I just have to find a spot for it on my poetry shelf.
“Dreams”
“Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.”
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This is the best poet I‘ve read. Coolest poet I‘ve read. My favorite poet I‘ve read.
Hughes is risky, exploratory (constantly trying new things), and his work is filled with a vibrant hum.
It's not National Poetry Month any longer, but I still have a couple of poetry books I'm working my way through. Here's one of my favorites, Langston Hughes' "Dreams"
Tell me, tell me,
What makes love such an ache and pain?
Tell me what makes
Love such an ache and pain?
It takes you and it breaks you—
But you got to love again.
“Let us become instead, you and I,
One single hand
That can united rise
To smash the old dead dogmas of the past—“
He was writing this nearly eighty years ago, saying some of the same basic stuff people talk about to this day.
(Also, Langston Hughes was radical—way more than I expected!)
Surely we know what you do not know;
Joy of living,
Uselessness of things.
You are too young to understand yet.
Build another skyscraper
Touching the stars.
We sit with our backs against a tree
And watch skyscrapers tumble
And stars forget.
“To respect Hughes‘s work, above all one must respect the African American people and their culture, as well as the American people in general and their national culture.”
Happy Birthday to Langston Hughes born on this day in 1902.
I read this sweet poem the other day and it aptly describes our house now, but with two little maple-sugars peeping out. 👀👀
God to a Hungry Child
One of the first poems that I can remember memorizing just because I never wanted to forget the tenacity of a trying spirit. Now I have a son and every day I try to encourage him to be himself and all that he can be. Never lose hope and never give up.
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Feb. 12 - Refugee in America: "If you had known what I knew / You would know why." Graphic interpretation from: Signature Reads.
I looked and I saw
That man they call the Law.
He was coming
Down the street at me!
I had visions in my head
Of being laid out cold and dead,
Or else murdered
By the Third Degree
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about to finish the poetry collection😊 I liked it very much👍🏼
Now, more than ever, we believe in the power of story, in empathy, in inclusion, in the belief that all voices have the right to be heard.
Don't give up hope. Fight back against racism, homophobia, misogyny, Islamophobia, and the lie of the single story. Fight back with action, and words. We will keep fighting alongside you.
-The Tin House Team
Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid.
"Say, who are you that mumbles in the dark? And who are you that draws your veil across the stars?"
I like to use the poetry of Langston Hughes with my middle school students. They like it because it seems simple, but when we break it down they realize how much meaning is packed in each one. I love teaching and creating poetry with my students. #BookPhotoChallenge #AugustPhotoChallenge #AugustofPages
New Book!!❤️ and such a lovely one as well :) looking very much foward to reading all the gorgeous poems :)