Short Hughes Poems

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

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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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Howard Robard Hughes
Famously rich recluse
Dreams led him to the lap of luxury
Followed by nightmarish mysophobic OCD...

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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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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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Blip

This is a short poem. 
Not a long one like the rest. 
(not haiku)
This is about time, 
and saying a lot in a small space.
Updates to follow.
Be quiet... (calm)

?...

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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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Yesterday

We 
that can remember
keep-alive
those that have been forgotten,
in the small room,
the place in our hearts,
where God 
plants the best flowers,
and no tears…
fall....

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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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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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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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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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Longing

Little mermaid on the rock, 
Wishing and wondering, 
What it would be like, 
just to walk?

Little girl in a chair, 
riding around on wheels of air…
Wondering; what it is like… to feel?...

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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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Singing birds emerging.
Pretty flowers are blooming.
Rabbits are hopping.
In spring things start living.
Nests of eggs are cracking.
Gardens are now growing.

Written Date: 1/21/2020
Acrostic Rhyme Poem...

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925

They are pure silver, 
and have no idea. 
They are humble and kind, 
pray for each other, 
and welcome strangers.

Yet polished or aged, 
vintage of freshly fired, 
the address is the same. 

925...

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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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Grief

God gave me an angel, 
a wife, 
a helpmate.
I had no idea the worth of that gift, 
bestowed upon my unworthy life.

Regret has nothing to do 
with the sister of joy.  
Loss is the little brother, 
of the spoiled....

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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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"V"irus now controlling the world.
"I"n every home changes are coming.
"R"un to the store to get what you need.
"U"se peace not fear to escape the stress.
"S"un rises, sun sets with more deaths each day.

Date Written: 3/13/2020...

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Whisper
 
A subtle current,
a fierce expression,
of a gentle feeling, 
wild,
powerful, 
no longer held contained 
by any restraint. 
 
Not weak, as may be expected, 
but the very difference...
between life and death. 

Listen....

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A Blip Offering

I
we
they
and...

a show
a play
a picnic
an event

chaos
loss
grief
love
laughter

joy
connection
wisdom
truth

stranger
family
friend
soul mate

God


(free verse until it is no longer free...)...

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A sunny day for you,
a sunny day for me.
A day to say,
I love you.
A day for you to say,
you love me too.

Written Date: 3/31/2020

Honorable Mention     BRIAN'S SELECT 9, any form, any theme Contest Judged:6/9/2020 Sponsored by: Brian Strand...

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