Justice by Langston Hughes
That Justice is a blind goddessIs a thing to which we black are wise.Her bandage hides two festering soresThat onceContinue Reading
Category: Poems I Love
A hodgepodge collection of all the poetry I keep coming back to over and over again. Hope you enjoy them as much as I do!!
Telemachus by Ocean Vuong
Like any good son, I pull my father outof the water, drag him by his hair through white sand, hisContinue Reading
Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou
Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.I’m not cute or built to suit a fashion model’s size But when I startContinue Reading
A Dream Within a Dream by Edgar Allan Poe
Take this kiss upon the brow!And, in parting from you now,Thus much let me avow —You are not wrong, whoContinue Reading
Whitey on the Moon by Gil Scott-Heron
About the Poem This spoken word poem by Gil Scott-Heron is from 1970 and was written during the Apollo moonContinue Reading
Lady Lazarus by Sylvia Plath
I have done it again. One year in every ten I manage it—— A sort of walking miracle, my skin Bright as aContinue Reading
Everyone Sang by Siegfried Sassoon
Everyone suddenly burst out singing;And I was filled with such delightAs prisoned birds must find in freedom,Winging wildly across theContinue Reading
“If I can stop one heart from breaking…” by Emily Dickinson
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one lifeContinue Reading
Brown Penny by William Butler Yeats
I whispered, ‘I am too young,’And then, ‘I am old enough’;Wherefore I threw a pennyTo find out if I mightContinue Reading
Remembering by Maya Angelou
Soft grey ghosts crawl up my sleeveto peer into my eyeswhile I within deny their threatsand answer them with lies. Continue Reading
Alexis Attempts to Write 