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  • The Dream Keeper
    Bring me all of your dreams,
    You dreamer,
    8 lines, 8 comments
  • Bad Morning
    Here I sit
    With my shoes mismated.
    4 lines, 2 comments
  • Wake
    Tell all my mourners
    To mourn in red --
    4 lines
  • Ennui
    It's such a
    Bore
    4 lines, 5 comments
  • Love Song for Lucinda
    Love
    Is a ripe plum
    18 lines
  • Children's Rhymes
    By what sends
    The white kids
    16 lines, 16 comments
  • Cross
    My old man's a white old man
    And my old mother's black.
    11 lines, 40 comments
  • Cultural Exchange
    In the Quarter of the Negroes
    Where the doors are doors of paper
    61 lines, 2 comments
  • Dinner Guest: Me
    I know I am
    The Negro Problem
    23 lines
  • Dream Deferred
    What happens to a dream deferred?
    Does it dry up
    11 lines, 10 comments
  • April Rain Song
    Let the rain kiss you
    Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops
    6 lines, 32 comments
  • The Weary Blues
    Droning a drowsy syncopated tune,
    Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon,
    35 lines, 2 comments
  • Merry-Go-Round
    Where is the Jim Crow section
    On this merry-go-round,
    13 lines
  • Minstrel Man
    Because my mouth
    Is wide with laughter
    16 lines, 2 comments
  • As I Grew Older
    It was a long time ago.
    I have almost forgotten my dream.
    29 lines, 31 comments
  • Mother To Son
    Well, son, I'll tell you:
    Life for me ain't been no crystal stair.
    19 lines, 28 comments
  • Dreams
    Hold fast to dreams
    For if dreams die
    8 lines, 5 comments
  • My People
    The night is beautiful,
    So the faces of my people.
    6 lines
  • Jazzonia
    Oh, silver tree!
    Oh, shining rivers of the soul!
    17 lines, 2 comments
  • Walkers With The Dawn
    Being walkers with the dawn and morning,
    Walkers with the sun and morning,
    6 lines
  • Theme For English B
    The instructor said,
    Go home and write
    41 lines, 3 comments
  • Still Here
    been scared and battered.
    My hopes the wind done scattered.
    9 lines, 1 comment
  • Quiet Girl
    I would liken you
    To a night without stars
    6 lines, 2 comments
  • Problems
    2 and 2 are 4.
    4 and 4 are 8.
    8 lines, 1 comment
  • Po' Boy Blues
    When I was home de
    Sunshine seemed like gold.
    26 lines, 2 comments
  • Night Funeral In Harlem
    Night funeral
    In Harlem:
    46 lines, 1 comment
  • Madam And The Phone Bill
    You say I O.K.ed
    LONG DISTANCE?
    49 lines, 4 comments
  • Madam And Her Madam
    I worked for a woman,
    She wasn't mean—
    28 lines
  • Life Is Fine
    I went down to the river,
    I set down on the bank.
    34 lines, 14 comments
  • Let America Be America Again
    Let America be America again.
    Let it be the dream it used to be.
    86 lines, 16 comments
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