poetry

stole this off the Texas to organ site. I have never read this fellow's poetry before but I think this is beautiful...



I too, sing America.

I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes, But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.

Tomorrow,
I'll be at the table
When company comes.
Nobody'll dare Say to me,
"Eat in the kitchen,"
Then.

Besides,
They'll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed --


I, too, am America.

~Langston Hughes
I said I didn't know this poet but after looking on the net I realized that I do, this is his poem and it is my favorite poem, I am old and forgot names but here is the poem that I love...



I've known rivers:
I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the
flow of human blood in human veins.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.
I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.
I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it.
I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln
went down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy
bosom turn all golden in the sunset.

I've known rivers:
Ancient, dusky rivers.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
Langston Hughes