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Richard Wright

I lived from 1906-1960. I was from the United States, and am in the Americas category.

My poetry

• Five Haikus

  I am nobody:
  A red sinking autumn sun

  28 lines, 3 comments
• Haiku (21, 22, 24, 30 & 31)

  On winter mornings
  The candle shows faint markings

  28 lines, 1 comment
• Haiku (7, 11, 16, 18 & 20)

  Make up you mind, Snail!
  You are half inside your house,

  28 lines, 1 comment
• Haiku (67, 75, 78, 93 & 95)

  The day is so long
  That even noisy sparrows

  28 lines
• Haiku (50, 51, 53, 57 & 58)

  One magnolia
  Landed upon another

  28 lines

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Wright's' Books at Amazon

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  Haiku : This Other World $23.50 $15.98
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  Readings on Native Son (Literary Com.. $36.20

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