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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
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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.