"Salvation" By Langston Hughes (page 3)

snowbird

The Negro Speaks of Rivers

Composed when Langston was a lad of 17.

Reminds me of my dad and his struggles.

Syl

snowbird

My now-16-year-old g'son had to recite Mother to Son when he was four years old.

He owned that poem.

Syl

darth frosty

C'mon Syl if you mention a poem you gotta post it

The Negro speaks of rivers!

I've known rivers:
I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the
 flow of human blood in human veins.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.
I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.
I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it.
I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln 
 went down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy 
 bosom turn all golden in the sunset.

I've known rivers:
Ancient, dusky rivers.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

snowbird

Sorry.

That poem makes me go all mushy inside.

Syl

Langston Hughes was born 112 years ago today in Joplin, Missouri. This photo was taken by Nickolas Muray, a Hungarian-American photographer who was also an Olympic fencer, in 1923 when Mr. Hughes was about 21 years old.

humbled

Love him.

My youngest daughter would identify with that "not hearing Jesus". she resisted baptism--She never jeard the call either.

George Washington Carver born 150 years ago near Diamond, Missouri. Not far from here.

wasblind

Luv me some Langston

insearchoftruth4

Crossing, (a lonely day)

It was a lonely day folks when I walked all by myself, my friends was right there with me, but was just as if they left.

I went upon the mountain in high cold den, and coat that I was wearing was mosquito getting thin.

I went down to the valley and I crossed an icy stream, and ah, the water I was crossing was no water in a dream.

And the shoes I was wearing no protection from that stream, and I looked out on a prairie and as far as I could see,

was nobody on that prairie look like me......

Taj Mahal did a fantastic rendition of this song/poem, but i can't paste it. anyway give it a try https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuA5TNooutg

ooh!!

insot4

"Salvation" By Langston Hughes

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