Wednesday, July 9, 2008

The Trumpet Player

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  1. pax.for.everJuly 9, 2008 at 12:27 PM

    This poem is new to me -- and that's hard to find, with me being a top-notch, number-one Langston Hughes fan and poetry lover. The images and expressions are thought-provoking and memorable -- down to the core of one's soul. Yet nothing is comparable to the depth of the message in "I've Known Rivers", which make me want to peer into our past and relive those dusky days. Nevertheless, it lacks the joy and exuberance of his "Weary Blues", which is so rhythmical and rollicking, that I love to orate as well as teach it to today's youth with accompanying swaggering movements. So this poem lands somewhere in the middle and is reflective of the miracle that was the mind of Langston Hughes. Thank Heaven for his existence and insistence on loving and expressing our lives historically along with his own. Thank you for sharing, and thank you, Langston for caring.

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