Tag: Langston Hughes
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Musings, strange
A Facebook friend, John Burroughs, posted this searing Langston Hughes poem today: Song for a Dark Girl Way Down South in Dixie (Break the heart of me) They hung my black young lover To a cross roads tree. Way Down South in Dixie (Bruised body high in air) I asked the white Lord Jesus What…
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True words
My friend Todd Drew has a writing voice that drives me to envy. Lately, he has been posting his ruminations on the Yankees and life in general at Bronx Banter. His latest post there just blew me away. This is what Todd did. He took his thoughts and set them to music–the poetry of Langston…