June 8, 2008

What happens to a dream deferred?

HARLEM
Langston Hughes


What happens to a dream deferred?


Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?


Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.


Or does it explode?

2 comments:

subversion said...

Somebody once defined poetry as "... any piece of writing that could not be quoted from except out of context." So, here it goes:

"...
I'm with you in Rockland
    where you laugh at this invisible humor
I'm with you in Rockland
    where we are great writers on the same dreadful
    typewriter
I'm with you in Rockland
    where your condition has become serious and
    is reported on the radio
I'm with you in Rockland
    where the faculties of the skull no longer admit
    the worms of the senses
..."

banalidadesdebase said...

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Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.


Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.

Dreams
by Langston Hughes