Pulitzer Poems - Poems about Pulitzer

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 grievin': Never seen no Birch trees On a snowy evenin'. Then Oxford...

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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 out the next day To criticize your Iambic feet Said your...

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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 day I belted out those rhymes like Sandburg Gave them...

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As soon as I heard You were the First African American Male To win the Pulitzer prize for Poetry I wanted to run out and celebrate I wanted to wake up Hughes and Dunbar And Baraka and say we made it No one would have been prouder than Maya She sold ten million books And didn’t win a Pulitzer And you win after...

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Be Awarded a Pulitzer Prize Why would anyone my poems want to annihilate? They only contain friendship, humor and no hate And are designed to meet each and every need To you many words of knowledge try to feed. Experiences have often occurred and taken place And also many times music may have to face They may either beckon you or...

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sixties creation ~*~ fashionable and stylish modesty and sun ~*~ reflects the designed lure femininity captures ~*~ Written by James Fraser for Constance's contest 'The Sundress'...

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