Short Hughes Poems

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

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The door to heaven is joyfully found in his music
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Joplin's Langston Hughes
drew words from jaz&blues
With verse incisive&folksey
is how Harlem sequence came to be...

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Glenn Hughes
Rocking voices
Singing dancing bassing
Calming soothing rocking rolling
The best
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Howard Robard Hughes
Famously rich recluse
Dreams led him to the lap of luxury
Followed by nightmarish mysophobic OCD...

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Painter Arthur Hughes
in pre-raphaelite who' who's
'April Love'* a reverse ecphrasis
depicting a love affair in crisis...

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Artist Arthur Hughes
decided prelim sketces not to use
He followed the style of a mentor
'til wanderlust came to the door...

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He is known by all as the Voice of Rock
With do respect no one will really mock
He sings in the air
As he does so care
Fun to listen to at the fishing dock
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Music that touches the soul
That makes one’s aura glow
For sure this I know
As his voice makes me whoa
From lyrics I watch sow
The next album is always a go...

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andrew caddick (short brown hair)
comes to bowl:
right hand over
looks straight on.

(Merv Hughes and Ian Healey - exeunt)

umpire (black trousers):
“he moved his feet!”...

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B-eat
R-abid
E-nemy's
N-asty
D-roplet
A-s

H-ygiene
U-pends
G-rime
H-ealthily
E-rasing
S-ickness

Topic: Birthday of Brenda Hughes (June 15) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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A lazy man's dialect
Langston Hughes' dream deferred
A place in the sun, postponed
Procrastination


Date written: 06/08/2020...

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I knew a black playwright, cried in his beer
Trust me, Langston Hughes had nada to fear
   My friend wrote ‘too white’
   'King's English,' his plight 
I advised him, “Take Ebonics, you hear?”...

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Yes, blame the chick,
Rocker or hick,
Burning here,
Hands appear!
Witchy fire, 
Doomed desire,
Blasted, didn't care,
She's a don't care bear,
Guess she felt good,
Blasted the whole 'hood!...

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V-erse
A-bout
N-ame
E-ases
S-oul
S-imply
A-bating

H-eartache
U-ntil
G-ladness
H-as
E-rased
S-orrow

Topic: Birthday of poetess Vanessa Hughes (August 28) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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L-yrics
A-re
N-icely
G-iving
S-ong
T-o
O-ne
N-ew

H-earer
U-nder
G-reat
H-armony's
E-xcellent
S-ound

Topic: Birthday of poet Langston Hughes (February 01)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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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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Acoustic Beauty.
Creatively Dazzles Every Friend.
Glenn Hughes Is Joyously Kind.
Laughter Must Now Open Performances.
Quietness Renders Soft Tenderness.
Until Violins Whisper Xylophone Yellow Zest
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L-itterateur's
A-crostic
N-icely
G-ives
S-tatement
T-o
O-ne
N-ame

H-aving
U-sed
G-reeter's
H-appily
E-xpressed
S-alutation

Topic: Birthday of poet Langston Hughes (February 01) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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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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Iconic, late African-American poet, Langston Hughes. 
     Dropped "John Mercer" from name; paid his dues...

 As one of the leading voices in the Harlem Renaissance.
Poem, "Dream Deferred," deemed his piece de resistance.


Date posted: 07/28/2021...

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COMMUNION
                                 (for Frieda and Nicholas Hughes)

two pieces of buttered bread.
two glasses of ice cold milk.

communion for the children
locked inside the apartment

of a dead poet.

Copyrighted
July 21, 2011
Jim Brewer...

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Sing is what Glenn Hughes does
Sung is what Glenn Hughes was
Dung is for those who hate 
Ding to remind not to stay up late
Dine to eat while Glenn Hughes sings
Wine to drink as his music rings
Wipe to take away the tears
Pipe to smoke against more music to hear...

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Glenn Hughes sings to women. Here are just a few he’s wooed…

- Sofia
- Arianna 
- Medusa
- Roxanne
- Angela
- Blue Jade
- Sista Jane
- Jolayne
- Jackie
- Madeleine 
- Gabi
- Allyson

Glenn romances them and sings from the heart!

Oh there is so much love....

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