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20 Jan 09 - 08:42 PM (#2544605) Subject: Add: As I Grow Older (poem-Langston Hughes) From: Charley Noble I posted this poem as "Poem of the Day" for my other primary website Oldpoetry.com in commemoration of Obama's Inauguration. There was some wonderful response there and I'd like to share the poem here: AS I GREW OLDER (Langston Hughes) It was a long time ago. I have almost forgotten my dream. But it was there then, In front of me, Bright like a sun— My dream. And then the wall rose, Rose slowly, Slowly, Between me and my dream. Rose until it touched the sky— The wall. Shadow. I am black. I lie down in the shadow. No longer the light of my dream before me, Above me. Only the thick wall. Only the shadow. My hands! My dark hands! Break through the wall! Find my dream! Help me to shatter this darkness, To smash this night, To break this shadow Into a thousand lights of sun, Into a thousand whirling dreams Of sun! Sorry, there's no tune but the words do ring today. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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21 Jan 09 - 11:14 PM (#2545705) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: As I Grow Older (Langston Hughes) From: Charley Noble Going twice! |
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21 Jan 09 - 11:58 PM (#2545722) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: As I Grow Older (Langston Hughes) From: Deckman Thanks for posting this ... very moving. Bob |
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22 Jan 09 - 03:50 PM (#2546359) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: As I Grow Older (Langston Hughes) From: Azizi I love Langston Hughes. Thanks for posting this poem, Charley. |
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22 Jan 09 - 03:56 PM (#2546362) Subject: Add: Children's Rhymes (poem-Langston Hughes) From: Azizi Think about what a wonderful role model President Obama is already for all children, but especially for children of color. Thank goodness this poem by Langston Hudges is no longer true: CHILDREN'S RHYMES (Langston Hughes) By what sends the white kids I ain't sent: I know I can't be President. What don't bug them white kids sure bugs me: We know everybody ain't free. Lies written down for white folks ain't for us a-tall: Liberty And Justice-- Huh!--For All? Langston Hughes http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/children-s-rhymes/ |
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23 Jan 09 - 03:46 PM (#2547285) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: As I Grow Older (Langston Hughes) From: Charley Noble I love the imagery in the last lines, and one could recite those lines with images from the Inauguration, as someone surely will. Charley Noble |