What Sends Them Harvard Poets
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
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
pulitzer, america, discrimination, judgement, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Goodbye Maya Angelou
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
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
pulitzer, angel, courage, emotions, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
They Wouldn'T Let Me Be White
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
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
pulitzer, allegory, anxiety, black african
Form: Quatrain
To Gregory Pardlo, Pulitzer Prize Winner
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
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
pulitzer, assonance, black african american,
Form: Rhyme
Be Awarded a Pulitzer Prize
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
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
pulitzer, allegory, analogy, appreciation, encouraging,
Form: Couplet
Lily's Pulitzer Prize
sixties creation ~*~
fashionable and stylish
modesty and sun ~*~
reflects the designed lure
femininity captures ~*~
Written by James Fraser for Constance's contest 'The Sundress'
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
pulitzer, imagination, inspirational
Form: Tanka