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GoodPoetry"Song" by Langston HughesRead and more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, and listen on Audible, iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, Anchor.Fm, iHeart, and GooglePlay Music and connect with us @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, and Twitter.
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The Poem:
Song
Lovely, dark, and lonely one,
Bare your bosom to the sun,
Do not be afraid of light
You who are a child of night.
Open wide your arms to life,
Whirl in the wind of pain and strife,
Face t...
2022-01-0300 min
GoodPoetry"On Quitting" by Edgar Albert GuestRead and more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, and listen on Audible, iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, Anchor.Fm, iHeart, and GooglePlay Music and connect with us @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, and Twitter.
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The Poem:
On Quitting
How much grit do you think you've got?
Can you quit a thing that you like a lot?
You may talk of pluck; it's an easy word,
And where'er you go it is often heard;
But can y...
2022-01-0201 min
GoodPoetry"A Jelly Fish" by Marianne MooreRead and more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, and listen on Audible, iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, Anchor.Fm, iHeart, and GooglePlay Music and connect with us @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, and Twitter.
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The Poem:
A Jelly Fish
Visible, invisible,A fluctuating charm,An amber-colored amethystInhabits it; your armApproaches, andIt opens andIt closes;You have meantTo catch it,And it shrivels;You abandonYour intent—It opens, and itCloses and youReach for it—The blueSurrounding itGro...
2022-01-0200 min
GoodPoetry"A HYMN to the Evening" by Phillis WheatleyRead and more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, and listen on Audible, iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, Anchor.Fm, iHeart, and GooglePlay Music and connect with us @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, and Twitter.
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The Poem:
A Hymn to the Evening
Soon as the sun forsook the eastern mainThe pealing thunder shook the heav'nly plain;Majestic grandeur! From the zephyr's wing,Exhales the incense of the blooming spring.Soft purl the streams, the birds renew their notes,And through the air their mingled...
2021-11-2801 min
GoodPoetry"A HYMN to the MORNING" by Phillis WheatleyRead and more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, and listen on Audible, iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, Anchor.Fm, iHeart, and GooglePlay Music and connect with us @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, and Twitter.
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The Poem:
A Hymn to the Morning
ATTEND my lays, ye ever honour'd nine,Assist my labours, and my strains refine;In smoothest numbers pour the notes along,For bright Aurora now demands my song.Aurora hail, and all the thousand dies,Which deck thy progress through the vaulted...
2021-11-2813 min
GoodPoetry"Thursday" by Edna St. Vincent MillayRead and more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, and listen on Audible, iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, Anchor.Fm, iHeart, and GooglePlay Music and connect with us @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, and Twitter.
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The Poem:
And if I loved you Wednesday, Well, what is that to you?I do not love you Thursday— So much is true. And why you come complaining Is more than I can see.I loved you Wednesday,—yes—but what Is that to me?
2021-11-2500 min
GoodPoetry"Travel" by Edna St. Vincent MillayRead and more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, and listen on Audible, iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, Anchor.Fm, iHeart, and GooglePlay Music and connect with us @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, and Twitter.
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The Poem:
Travel
The railroad track is miles away, And the day is loud with voices speaking, Yet there isn't a train goes by all day But I hear its whistle shrieking. All night there isn't a train goes by, Though the night is still for sleep and dreaming, But I see its cinders red on the sky, ...
2021-11-2400 min
GoodPoetry"Tavern" by Edna St. Vincent MillayRead and more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, and listen on Audible, iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, Anchor.Fm, iHeart, and GooglePlay Music and connect with us @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, and Twitter.
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The Poem:
I'll keep a little tavern
Below the high hill's crest,
Wherein all grey-eyed people
May set them down and rest.
There shall be plates a-plenty,
And mugs to melt the chill
Of all the grey-eyed people
Who happen up the hill.
There sound will sleep the traveller,
And dream his journey's end,
But I will rouse at midnight
The falling fire to...
2021-11-2200 min
GoodPoetry"Afternoon on a Hill" by Edna St. Vincent MillayRead and more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, and listen on Audible, iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, Anchor.Fm, iHeart, and GooglePlay Music and connect with us @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, and Twitter.
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The Poem:
I will be the gladdest thing
Under the sun!
I will touch a hundred flowers
And not pick one.
I will look at cliffs and clouds
With quiet eyes,
Watch the wind bow down the grass,
And the grass rise.
And when lights begin to show
Up from the town,
I will mark which must be mine,
...
2021-11-2100 min
GoodPoetryThe Unexplorer by Edna St. Vincent MillayRead and more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, and listen on Audible, iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, Anchor.Fm, iHeart, and GooglePlay Music and connect with us @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, and Twitter.
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Edna St. Vincent Millay, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1933
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The Poem:
The Unexplorer
There was a road ran past our house
Too lovely to explore.
I asked my mother once—she said
That if you followed where it led
It brought you to the milk-man’s door.
(That’s why I have not traveled more.)
“The Unexplorer” was published in A Few Figs From Thistles (Harper & Brothers, 1922...
2021-11-2100 min
GoodPoetry"The Negro Speaks of Rivers" by Langston HughesRead and more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, and listen on Audible, iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, Anchor.Fm, iHeart, and GooglePlay Music and connect with us @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, and Twitter.
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Langston Hughes in 1936 by Carl Van Vechten
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The Poem:
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
(To W.E.B. DuBois)
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...
2021-11-1200 min
GoodPoetry"Kids Who Die" by Langston HughesRead and more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, and listen on Audible, iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, Anchor.Fm, iHeart, and GooglePlay Music and connect with us @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, and Twitter.
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Portrait of American writer and activist Langston Hughes in 1943 (US Library of Congress Archives)
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The Poem:
Kids Who Die
This is for the kids who die,
Black and white,
For kids will die certainly.
The old and rich will live on awhile,
As Always,
Eating blood and gold,
Letting kids die.
Kids will die in the swamps of Mississippi
Organizing sharecroppers
Kids will die in the streets o...
2021-11-1000 min
GoodPoetry"Harlem" by Langston HughesRead and more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, and listen on Audible, iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, Anchor.Fm, iHeart, and GooglePlay Music and connect with us @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, and Twitter.
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Portrait of American writer and activist Langston Hughes in 1943 (US Library of Congress Archives)
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The Poem:
"Harlem"
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?
2021-11-0900 min
GoodPoetry"Dreams" by Langston HughesEPISODE DESCRIPTION
Read and more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, and listen on Audible, iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, Anchor.Fm, iHeart, and GooglePlay Music and connect with us @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, and Twitter.
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Portrait of American writer and activist Langston Hughes in 1943 (US Library of Congress Archives)
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The Poem:
"Dreams"
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.
2021-11-0800 min
GoodPoetry"American Heartbreak" by Langston HughesRead and more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, and listen on Audible, iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, Anchor.Fm, iHeart, and GooglePlay Music and connect with us @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, and Twitter.
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Langston Hughes in 1936 by Carl Van Vechten
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The Poem:
American Heartbreak
I am the American heartbreak—
Rock on which Freedom
Stumps its toe—
The great mistake
That Jamestown
Made long ago.
2021-11-0700 min
GoodPoetry"My People" by Langston Hughes"My People" by Langston Hughes
Read and more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, and listen on Audible, iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, Anchor.Fm, iHeart and GooglePlay Music and connect with us @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, and Twitter.
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Langston Hughes in 1936 by Carl Van Vechten
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The Poem:
My People
The night is beautiful,
So the faces of my people.The stars are beautiful,
So the eyes of my people.
Beautiful, also, is the sun.
Beautiful, also, are the souls of my people.
2021-11-0600 min
GoodPoetry"When Sue Wears Red" by Langston HughesRead and more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, and listen on Audible, iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, Anchor.Fm, iHeart and GooglePlay Music and connect with us @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, and Twitter.
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When Sue Wears Red
When Susanna Jones wears red
Her face is like an ancient cameo
Turned brown by the ages.
Come with a blast of trumpets,
Jesus!
When Susanna Jones wears red
A queen from some time-dead Egyptian night
Walks once again.
Blow trumpets, Jesus!
And the beauty of Susanna Jones in red
Burns in my heart a love-fire sharp like pain.
Sweet silver trumpets,
Jesus!
2021-11-0400 min
GoodPoetryTheme for English B by Langston HughesRead and more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, and listen on iTunes, Stitcher and GooglePlay Music and connect with us @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, and Twitter.
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"Theme for English B" by Langston Hughes
The instructor said,
Go home and write
a page tonight.
And let that page come out of you—
Then, it will be true.
I wonder if it’s that simple?
I am twenty-two, colored, born in Winston-Salem.
I went to school there, then Durham, then here
to this college on the hill above Harlem.
I am the only colored student in my class.
The steps from the hill lead do...
2021-10-3102 min
GoodPoetry"The Washer-Woman" by Otto Leland Bohanan#GoodPoetry presents an excerpt from Phillis Wheatley's poem, entitled "To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth". This poem was published in Phillis Wheatley's poetry book, entitled, "Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral" in 1773. This poem is in the public domain.
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This colored illustration of Phillis Wheatley is in the public domain.
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Here is the text for the excerpt of Phillis Wheatley's poem, entitled, "To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth":
Should you, my lord, while you peruse my song,
Wonder from whence my love of Freedom sprung,
Whence flow these wishes for the common good,
By...
2021-02-0300 min
GoodPoetry"Ars Poetica" by Archibald MacleishArs Poetica
BY ARCHIBALD MACLEISH
A poem should be palpable and mute
As a globed fruit,
Dumb
As old medallions to the thumb,
Silent as the sleeve-worn stone
Of casement ledges where the moss has grown—
A poem should be wordless
As the flight of birds.
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A poem should be motionless in time
As the moon climbs,
Leaving, as the moon releases
Twig by twig the night-entangled trees,
Leaving, as the moon behind the winter leaves,
Memory by memory the mind—
A poem should be motionless in time
As the moon climbs.
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A poem should be equal to:
Not true.
For...
2020-05-2701 min
Struggle CityMore Like Writer of the Wreck-ade!-- SC Podcast 15In this gripping season finale of season two of the podcast Casey, Missy, and Dave comment on the controversial pick for the writer of the decade. Why would they pick the Instagram poet to be the writer of the decade? More like the writer of the WRECK-ade am I, right? Beyond that, the gang talks about Harry Potter, specifically the question of "Is Snape a good guy?" Where Missy and Dave agree to disagree. #Writerofthedecade #rupikaur #Harrypotter #poetry #hottake #instagrampoet #getwrecked #emotions #goodpoetry #reading #englishmajor #rachelwiley #depression #anxiety #mentalillness
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2020-02-1154 min
Struggle CityMore Like Writer of the Wreck-ade!-- SC Podcast 15In this gripping season finale of season two of the podcast Casey, Missy, and Dave comment on the controversial pick for the writer of the decade. Why would they pick the Instagram poet to be the writer of the decade? More like the writer of the WRECK-ade am I, right? Beyond that, the gang talks about Harry Potter, specifically the question of "Is Snape a good guy?" Where Missy and Dave agree to disagree. #Writerofthedecade #rupikaur #Harrypotter #poetry #hottake #instagrampoet #getwrecked #emotions #goodpoetry #reading #englishmajor #rachelwiley #depression #anxiety #mentalillness
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2020-02-1154 min
GoodPoetry"One's-Self I Sing" by Walt Whitman, read by Teyuna Trynea DarrisOne’s-Self I sing, a simple separate person,
Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse.
Of physiology from top to toe I sing,
Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far,
The Female equally with the Male I sing.
Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power,
Cheerful, for freest action form’d under the laws divine,
The Modern Man I sing.
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2019-06-0900 min
GoodPoetry"There is no Frigate like a book" by Emily DickinsonThere is no Frigate like a Book
To take us Lands away
Nor any Coursers like a Page
Of prancing Poetry –
This Traverse may the poorest take
Without oppress of Toll –
How frugal is the Chariot
That bears the Human Soul –
2019-01-0100 min
GoodPoetry"When I Was One-and-Twenty" by A.E. Housman"When I Was One-and-Twenty"
BY A. E. HOUSMAN
When I was one-and-twenty
I heard a wise man say,
“Give crowns and pounds and guineas
But not your heart away;
Give pearls away and rubies
But keep your fancy free.”
But I was one-and-twenty,
No use to talk to me.
When I was one-and-twenty
I heard him say again,
“The heart out of the bosom
Was never given in vain;
’Tis paid with sighs a plenty
And sold for endless rue.”
And I am two-and-twenty,
And oh, ’tis true, ’tis true.
2018-12-261h 01
GoodPoetry"IF" by Rudyard KiplingListen to, and read more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, and on iTunes, Stitcher and Google Podcasts.
2018-12-1901 min
GoodPoetry"Even Such as Time" by Sir Walter Ralegh (or, Sir Walter Raleigh)Even such is time, that takes in trust
Our youth, our joys, our all we have,
And pays us but with age and dust;
Who, in the dark and silent grave,
When we have wandered all our ways,
Shuts up the story of our days.
But from this earth, this grave, this dust,
My God shall raise me up, I trust.
2018-12-1700 min
GoodPoetry"[Auto-]Biography" by Teyuna T. DarrisListen to more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, iTunes, Stitcher and GooglePlay Music and connect with us @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, and Twitter.
2018-11-0602 min
GoodPoetry"The Purple Cow" by Frank Gelett BurgessListen to more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, iTunes, Stitcher and GooglePlay Music and connect with us @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, and Twitter.
2018-11-0400 min
GoodPoetry"Cinq Ans Apres" by Frank Gelette BurgessAh , yes! I wrote the " Purple Cow" —
I'm Sorry, now, I Wrote it!
But I can Tell you, Anyhow,
I'll Kill you if you Quote it!
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2018-11-0200 min
GoodPoetry"I Saw a Man Pursuing the Horizon" by Stephen CraneListen to more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, iTunes, Stitcher and GooglePlay Music and connect with us @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, and Twitter.
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BY STEPHEN CRANE
I saw a man pursuing the horizon;
Round and round they sped.
I was disturbed at this;
I accosted the man.
“It is futile,” I said,
“You can never —”
“You lie,” he cried,
And ran on.
2018-11-0200 min
GoodPoetry"Evolution" by John Banister TabbListen to more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, iTunes, Stitcher and GooglePlay Music and connect with us @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, and Twitter. -------------------------------------- "Evolution" by John Banister Tabb
Out of the dusk a shadow,
Then, a spark;
Out of the cloud a silence,
Then, a lark;
Out of the heart a rapture,
Then, a pain;
Out of the dead, cold ashes,
Life again.
2018-10-3000 min
GoodPoetry"A Learned Man Came to Me Once" by Stephen CraneListen to more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, iTunes, Stitcher and GooglePlay Music and connect with us @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, and Twitter.
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"A Learned Man Came to Me Once" by Stephen Crane
A learned man came to me once.
He said, "I know the way, -- come."
And I was overjoyed at this.
Together we hastened.
Soon, too soon, were we
Where my eyes were useless,
And I knew not the ways of my feet.
I clung to the hand of my friend;
But at last he cried, "I am lost."
2018-10-0100 min
GoodPoetry"Fire and Ice" by Robert FrostListen to more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, iTunes, Stitcher and GooglePlay Music and connect with us @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, and Twitter.
2018-09-3000 minGoodPoetry"Oxycrite" by Teyuna T. DarrisListen to more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, iTunes, Stitcher and GooglePlay Music and connect with us @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, and Twitter.
2018-07-3000 minGoodPoetry"Pretty" by Teyuna T. DarrisListen to more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, iTunes, Stitcher and GooglePlay Music and connect with us @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, and Twitter.
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I know I’m not that pretty,
But I have a smile that glows.
I may not be that pretty,
But I know more than you’ll ever know.
I may have chubby face:
But I can warm you with my grace
And I may have height as coal,
But I have heart that always grows.
So, maybe will come the day when I have perfect cheek bones.
But, until that day comes,
I’ll be pretty in my
2018-07-1800 min
GoodPoetry“The Elephant” by Hilaire Billoc“The Elephant” by Hilaire Billoc
Listen to more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, and connect with @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
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When people call this beast to mind,
They marvel more and more
At such a little tail behind,
So large a trunk before.
2018-07-1700 min
GoodPoetry"The Song of Mr. Toad" by Kenneth GrahameListen to more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, and connect with @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
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The world has held great Heroes,
As history-books have showed;
But never a name to go down to fame
Compared with that of Toad
The clever men at Oxford
Know all that there is to be knowed.
But they none of them knew one half as much
As intelligent Mr Toad!
The animals sat in the Ark and cried,
Their tears in torrents flowed.
Who was it said, “There’s land ahead?”
Encouraging Mr Toad!
The Army all saluted
As they marched along...
2018-06-2500 min
GoodPoetry"The Harlem Dancer" by Claude McKayListen to more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, and connect with @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
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"The Harlem Dancer:
by Claude McKay
Applauding youths laughed with young prostitutes
And watched her perfect, half-clothed body sway;
Her voice was like the sound of blended flutes
Blown by black players upon a picnic day.
She sang and danced on gracefully and calm,
The light gauze hanging loose about her form;
To me she seemed a proudly-swaying palm
Grown lovelier for passing through a storm.
Upon her swarthy neck black shiny curls
Luxuriant fell; and tossing coins in praise,
The wine-flushed...
2018-06-1801 min
GoodPoetry"I was born upon thy bank, river" by Henry David ThoreauListen to more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, iTunes, Stitcher and GooglePlay Music and connect with us @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, and Twitter.
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"I was born upon thy bank, river"
by Henry David Thoreau
I was born upon thy bank, river,
My blood flows in thy stream,
And thou meanderest forever
At the bottom of my dream.
2018-06-1700 minGoodPoetry"Do You Know What It's Like to Be Free?" by Teyuna T. DarrisListen to more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, iTunes, Stitcher and GooglePlay Music and connect with us @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, and Twitter.
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"Do You Know What It's Like to Be Free?"
by Teyuna T. Darris
Do you know what it’s like
To be free?
Like when you whirl your arms around In the gold-yellow sun And fling your legs in the air?
Not caring what anyone say Just a smile in your heart And on your chin.
I know what it’s like
See, I whirl my heart
On a golden string:
Three-chorded and whirlin’ to the sun. Three...
2018-06-1600 min
GoodPoetry"Answer to a Child's Question" by Samuel Taylor ColeridgeListen to more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, iTunes, Stitcher and GooglePlay Music and connect with us @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, and Twitter.
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"Answer to a Child's Question" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Do you ask what the birds say? The Sparrow, the Dove,
The Linnet and Thrush say, “I love and I love!”
In the winter they’re silent—the wind is so strong;
What it says, I don’t know, but it sings a loud song.
But green leaves, and blossoms, and sunny warm weather,
And singing, and loving—all come back together.
But the Lark is so brimful of gladness...
2018-06-1500 minGoodPoetry"A Poem" by Teyuna Trynea DarrisListen to more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, iTunes, Stitcher and GooglePlay Music and connect with us @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, and Twitter.
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"A Poem" by Teyuna Trynea Darris
A poem does not have to rhyme It simply shares a record of a tale about some interesting/practical event that all humans share.
A poem is a dream of the pictures we live (daily) of the stories we see, hear, taste, touch--- smell.
A poem is a reflection of the people, of the dream, of the vision, of the fight, of the struggle, of the hurts and sorrows
and freedoms...
2018-06-1401 min
GoodPoetry"Invictus" by William Ernest HenleyListen to more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, iTunes, Stitcher and GooglePlay Music and connect with us @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, and Twitter.
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"Invictus" by William Ernest Henley
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and...
2018-06-1300 min
GoodPoetry"The New Colossus" by Emma LazarusListen to more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, iTunes, Stitcher and GooglePlay Music and connect with us @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, and Twitter.
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"The New Colossus"
BY EMMA LAZARUS
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me you...
2018-06-1224 min
GoodPoetry"The Arrow and the Song" by Henry Wadsworth LongfellowListen to more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, iTunes, Stitcher and GooglePlay Music and connect with us @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, and Twitter.
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""The Arrow and the Song" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"
I shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For, so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight.
I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For who has sight so keen and strong,
That it can follow the flight of song?
Long, long afterward, in an oak
I found...
2018-06-1200 minGoodPoetry"GoodPoetry" by Teyuna Trynea DarrisListen to more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, iTunes, Stitcher and GooglePlay Music and connect with us @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, and Twitter. ______________________________________
“GoodPoetry”
What are the prerequisites For good poetry? Is it the layout on the page
Or, a pretty word to calm fears
Or, to stir emotion
Or, to put you in-between?
Does good poetry sound good?
Are its iambs and pentameters in perfect mode? (or, is it form?) Is it a sonnet or a villanelle?
Does it rhyme or unrhyme,
And can it have the rhythm, And not have the rhyme?
Is it sexy, seductive, sassy, and sweet?
Or...
2018-06-1001 min
GoodPoetryWe’ll Go No More A-Roving by Lord ByronListen to more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, and on iTunes, Sticher, the GooglePlay Music store and YouTube.
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We’ll Go No More A-Roving by Lord Byron
So We'll Go No More a Roving
BY LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON)
So, we'll go no more a roving
So late into the night,
Though the heart be still as loving,
And the moon be still as bright.
For the sword outwears its sheath,
And the soul wears out the breast,
And the heart must pause to breathe,
And love itself have rest.
Though the night was made for loving,
And the day re...
2018-06-1000 min
Good PoetryEpisode 2: A Pair of Poems from Mary OliverIn this episode we review two poems from Mary Oliver's book, Swan: poetry and prose poems.
Mary Oliver is one of the most influential American poets of the last hundred years, winning both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for her work. Her book, Swan: poetry and prose poems, is full of musings on the nature of beauty. We review How Perfectly and I Own A House, two poems that have a lot to say about our relationship to the world around us.
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2018-05-2811 minGoodPoetry"My Poetical Side" by Teyuna T. DarrisListen to more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.com, and connect with @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
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"My Poetical Side"
by Teyuna T. Darris
I just thought I'd unleash
My poetical side.
'Cause in everyday life,
I live to hide.
Need something of freedom:
From time to time
Need something of feeling:
To kiss my prime,
To hush my cries
To love my eyes.
I just thought I'd show
My virgin side:
All kids and maude---
The unaduletered tide.
See, I don't tend to fancy things:
Just those crystal, cloudless,
Truthly things.
But, since this long time,
I thought I'd...
2018-05-2700 min
GoodPoetry"Let America Be America Again" by Langston HughesListen to more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, and connect with @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram
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"Let America Be America Again" by Langston Hughes
Let America be America again.
Let it be the dream it used to be.
Let it be the pioneer on the plain
Seeking a home where he himself is free.
(America never was America to me.)
Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed—
Let it be that great strong land of love
Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme
That any man be crushed by one above.
(It never was America to me.)
O, le...
2018-05-2304 min
GoodPoetryEpisode 14"The Red Wheelbarrow" by William Carlos Williams; Read by Teyuna Darris
Read and more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, and listen on Audible, iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, Anchor.Fm, iHeart and GooglePlay Music and connect with us @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, and Twitter.
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"The Red Wheelbarrow" by William Carlos Williams;
so much dependsupon
a red wheelbarrow
glazed with rainwater
beside the whitechickens
2018-05-2100 min
GoodPoetry"Fog" BY CARL SANDBURGListen to more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, and join @GoodPoetry on Facebook and Twitter.
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"Fog"
BY CARL SANDBURG
The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
2018-05-211h 14
Good PoetryEpisode 1: Wade in the Water by Tracy K. SmithIn this inaugural episode of Good Poetry, host Andrew Coons introduces the podcast and talks about the new book by poet laureate, Tracy K. Smith; as well as some thoughts from hearing her speak live.
You can follow Good Poetry on Instagram at @goodpoetrypodcast.
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2018-05-2112 min
GoodPoetry"If-ing" by Langston HughesListen to more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org.
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"If-ing"
If I had some small change
I’d buy me a mule,
Get on that mule and
Ride like a fool.
If I had some greenbacks
I’d buy me a Packard,
Fill it up with gas and
Drive that baby backward.
If I had a million
I’d get me a plane
And everybody in America’d
Think I was insane.
But I ain’t got a million,
Fact is, ain’t got a dime —
So just by if-ing
I have a good time!
2018-05-2100 minGoodPoetry"Fog" by Carl SandburgListen to more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, and join @GoodPoetry on Facebook and Twitter.
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"Fog"
BY CARL SANDBURG
The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
2018-05-2100 minGoodPoetry"Snail" by Langston HughesListen to more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org. "Snail"
Written by Langston Hughes
Read by Teyuna T. Darris
Little snail,
Dreaming you go.
Weather and rose
Is all you know.
Weather and rose
Is all you see,
Drinking
The dewdrop’s
Mystery.
Langston Hughes
From Collected Poems. Copyright ©1994 by The Estate
of Langston Hughes.
2018-05-2127 min
GoodPoetry"Dream Dust" by Langston HughesListen to "Dream Dust" by Langston Hughes, read by Teyuna T. Darris.
Watch "Dream Dust" by Langston Hughes--- www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnwOES3ZC9U
2018-04-2800 min
GoodPoetry"On Being Brought from Africa to America" by Phillis WheatleyListen to Phillis Wheatley's poem, entitled, "On Being Brought from Africa to America" read by Teyuna T. Darris. More at www.GoodPoetry.org.
2014-02-1300 min
GoodPoetryI Hear America Singing by Walt WhitmanAudio recording of Teyuna T. Darris reading "I Hear America Singing" by Walt Whitman.
2014-02-1001 min
GoodPoetry"Routine" by Arthur Guiterman, read by Teyuna T. DarrisNo matter what we are and who,
Some duties everyone must do:
A poet puts aside his wreath
To wash his face and brush his teeth,
And even Earls
Must comb their curls,
And even Kings
Have underthings.
2013-05-2700 min
GoodPoetry'He Had His Dream" by Paul Laurence Dunbar, read by Teyuna T. DarrisHe had his dream, and all through life,
Worked up to it through toil and strife.
Afloat fore'er before his eyes,
It colored for him all his skies:
The storm-cloud dark
Above his bark,
The calm and listless vault of blue
Took on its hopeful hue,
It tinctured every passing beam -
He had his dream.
He labored hard and failed at last,
His sails too weak to bear the blast,
The raging tempests tore away
And sent his beating bark astray.
But what cared he
For wind or sea!
He said, 'The tempest will be short,
My bark will...
2013-05-2700 min
GoodPoetry"I had no time to hate, because" by Emily DickinsonThis is a poetry reading from GoodPoetry.org. Today, "I had no time to hate, because" by Emily Dickinson is presented. Narrated by Teyuna T. Darris.
2013-04-1300 min