Poems Of The Week

[jazzy_dave]

Stevie Smith
I Do Not Speak


I do not ask for mercy for understanding for peace
And in these heavy days I do not ask for release
I do not ask that suffering shall cease.

I do not pray to God to let me die
To give an ear attentive to my cry
To pause in his marching and not hurry by.

I do not ask for anything I do not speak
I do not question and I do not seek
I used to in the day when I was weak.

Now I am strong and lapped in sorrow
As in a coat of magic mail and borrow
From Time today and care not for tomorrow.


Stevie Smith


Langston Hughes
Dreams


Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.


Langston Hughes

Comments

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

So true of dreams. :o
Hugs, Jon

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

Agreed. A lovely short poem.

[viciousladybug.livejournal.com]

Langston Hughes is one of my favorite poets. I have a best hits book of poems that I leaf through from time to time. I also did a paper on him when I was in college. Def a great American.

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

Beautiful...