Tag Archives: Langston Hughes

They Would Write About It!!! – A Tribute to Sharon Olds and Muriel Rukeyser

September 13, 2022 – 7:04 pm

Physician You sit at the head of the table. You say you have wanted to write about— not depression, it is worse than that, it is rock bottom: the frightfulness. […]

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The Bigness of Small Poems – # 44 in a series – Joy, Not Meant To Be a Crumb

February 28, 2019 – 5:27 pm

Days What are days for? Days are where we live. They come, they wake us Time and time over. They are to be happy in: Where can we live but […]

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Living in a Terrifying World – Three Responses from Three H’s – Hughes, Hirschfield and Hayden

January 24, 2018 – 9:08 pm

Luck Sometimes a crumb falls From the tables of joy, Sometimes a bone Is flung. To some people Love is given, To others Only heaven. Langston Hughes (1902 – 1967) […]

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The Bigness of Small Poems – # 36 in a Series – Smiling at the Other’s Welcome – Langston Hughes and Derek Walcott

January 23, 2018 – 9:11 pm

Final Curve When you turn the corner And run into yourself Then you know that you have turned All the corners that are left Langston Hughes (1902 – 1967) from […]

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