Mckay Poems - Poems about Mckay

Get Well Soon! For Madelyn McKay, this May! M~magical, moonlighted May A~ asteroids, in the sky play Y~yacht club lights flicker on...

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Letter me with lines that I may distil The sovereign sweetness of your flaming will Teach me to sing of dusty flowers pure And maiden's savaged innocence no more To scorn, for you in all emotions soar Though self-exiled from our tropical shore Great poet, who brought Apollo's lyre here O could you walk again your Harlem now And find a lullaby for...

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Boots pavements pounding, Brass buttons becoming stars Where fear was astounding The heart; and in all their wars We were but a margin, you I and expendable like small talk Before the mold infected dew. I from car to car with you walk The porter serving words on streets Of Harlem, the sable prince A duckling lost. I pound the beats And watch the enemy wince, O...

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The day was glorious, sun splitting the sky, Sat down in utter bewilderment I asked myself why, It started round with one miss Mckay around 5 years ago or so, When i think of you i wonder what I meant, Your hair so black like the darkest of nights, Your eyes they shone like the brightest of lights, Your skin...

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Countee Cullen knew you, and you nectared him Lambent voice when Harlem was wrapped in night Artist and rebel, African singer of Grecian hymn Umbilical to Jamaica, nightingale in Nietzschean flight Deny not the laurels I lay at your feet Encourage me to measure as I sing your feat. Mentor of Langston from the village desk Chronicler of blackness in its untenderness Kingston...

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