aerdran: (Tyrel)
I shall now post a meme from [livejournal.com profile] ravenscanary

When you see this, post a poem in your journal.

One of my top three favourite poems of all time, by Langston Hughes, one of my all-time favourite poets:

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.

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