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Weekly Poem: Scheherazade
I stumbled upon Richard Siken’s poem Scheherazade by chance and it has quickly become one of my favorite poems. Despite the straightforward language being used, it is a challenging poem as it isn’t immediately clear what is being conveyed. The poem has a certain surreal quality to it that is very similar to how we…
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Weekly Poem: Freedom
by Langston Hughes Freedom will not comeToday, this year Nor everThrough compromise and fear. I have as much rightAs the other fellow has To standOn my two feetAnd own the land. I tire so of hearing people say,Let things take their course.Tomorrow is another day.I do not need my freedom when I’m dead.I cannot live…
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Weekly Poem: Caged Bird
By Maya Angelou A free bird leapson the back of the wind and floats downstream till the current endsand dips his wingin the orange sun raysand dares to claim the sky. But a bird that stalksdown his narrow cagecan seldom see throughhis bars of ragehis wings are clipped and his feet are tiedso he opens his throat to…
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Weekly Poem: The Weary Blues
Langston Hughes – 1902-1967 Droning a drowsy syncopated tune,Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon, I heard a Negro play.Down on Lenox Avenue the other nightBy the pale dull pallor of an old gas light He did a lazy sway . . . He did a lazy sway . . .To the tune o‘ those Weary Blues.With…