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Helene M Johnson

I lived from 1905-1995. I was from Canada, and am in the Americas category.

My poetry

• Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem

  You are disdainful and magnificant--
  Your perfect body and your pompous gait,

  15 lines
• A Southern Road

  Yolk- colored tongue
  Parched beneath a burning sky,

  17 lines
• Canada's Welcome

  A nation's hearty welcome take,
  Heir to a mighty throne;

  21 lines
• A Missionary Brings a Young Native to America

  All day she heard the mad stampede of feet
  Push by her in a thick unbroken haste.

  14 lines

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