Best Hughes Poems

THE POET'S PLUCK - Langston Hughes

I Dream a World
where all people will be
Walkers With The Dawn
and completely free

In The Time Of Silver Rain
is the fresh new breeze
Juke Box Love Song
Springtime melodies

I Continue to Dream
though some hopes have not come
God comforts the losses
like a Mother to...

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Imagine sitting down and eating
chocolate bars with Glenn Hughes 

Nothing could be sweeter 
than this grand event

Think of all the bittersweet dialog
talking about lyrics for upcoming songs
and reflecting on his 50 years of music

Would there be nuts in your chocolate
and maybe dip them in a...

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Written from black hands,
Innovative jazz poems:
Harlem renaissance....

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Germaphobe Howard Hughes - reclusive billionaire -

made a plane of wood and loved to ride the air!

Bought his own hotel, just to hide himself from sight

and watched his own TV station’s movies late at night....

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Howard Hughes

was always in the news

He came up with one heck of a crazy notion.

A plane filled with ping pong balls, should it fall into the ocean.



Feb 2011 For Catie's "clerihew" contest...

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I pity him, a young black teen
Trying to be a man with no self-esteem
He examines his life but still can't get it right
His history and past still affecting him at night

He dreams dreams where he relives the past
When he was talked about for not being...

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HUGHES (HUES)

I’ll challenge you to speak of rivers
For the love of Mississippi mud
Purposely I’m a little outcast.

My racial pride has grown from his poetic lines
We pay and pick up all that hasn’t washed away.
Out of yesterday I’ll build my America

Dark Baby’s tomorrow, Dark Baby’s hair,...

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Langston Hughes. 'CROSS '


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In the morning her eyes paint the cities horizon.
Stretching and yawning.
Getting dressed; Her blue tapestry.
Opening the door to her apartment
She climbs down broken stairs.
It's payday Friday.
The mail man is late again.
Opening her box closing it right back.
She considers direct deposit,
Climbing back up those old creaks...

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Preacher man said..."Put another dolla' in the plate!"
Preacher man said..."Put another dolla' in the plate!"
I got my blessin' on lay-away;
Don't know how long I gotta wait!
Preacher man asked..."How long did you suffer?"
Preacher man asked..."How long did you suffer?"
I said, "It ain't over yet,
'Cuz these problems...

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Written: February 28, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Robert James Liguori

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I long to explore 
the depth of your flummoxed mind,
fathom the forms of 
your emotions, 
and outline the scenery of...

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I wanted to write
 The best slavery poem   ever written—
Perhaps win a Pulitzer or Faulkner. 

I had every intention of conforming 
To the standards 
Of modern verse and composition, 
Lyrics fluidly written, 
Perfect in frame, tempo and time, 
but a lot of my...

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They wouldn’t let me be White 
Oh I wanted to be 
Dreams of that Pulitzer haunted me 

They said, Sir, you have ten minutes to play
I gave them Milton, Poe and Millay 
I stood before that panel 
Like I was auditioning for Jesus On judgment...

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Clinton's Inauguration 1993

You were so beautiful, Maya
Standing in front of the
President and the First Lady


I didn’t really understand
Your Pulse Of Morning 
Presidential inauguration poem
I kind of got lost in the dinosaur theme
Poems about Mastodons usually
Don’t instantly inspire Black dreams

But those Harvard and Yale Bullies 
came...

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For Langston Hughes

What sends them Harvard poets
I just couldn't do it, Sir: 
What sends them Harvard poets
I just couldn't do it, Sir:
They'll never give me a Pulitzer.

What tickles them Yale poets
Just leaves me sad an' a grievin':
What tickles them Yale poets
Leaves me sad an' a...

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