“a thought, / A slumbering thought, is capable of years, / And curdles a long life into one hour.”

[larryhammer]

For Poetry Monday Oops Tuesday:

Tired, Langston Hughes

I am so tired of waiting,
Aren't you,
For the world to become good
And beautiful and kind?
Let us take a knife
And cut the world in two—
And see what worms are eating
At the rind.


Hughes was a leading poet of the Harlem Renaissance.

---L.

Subject quote from The Dream, the Byron.

Comments

[cmcmck]

Absolutely so!

[conuly]

Too appropriate for today. Why is it still so appropriate!?

[larryhammer]

Because this country still hasn't come to terms with the trauma that slavery caused.