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Sat, 25.08.2018

FIVE HAIKU’S by Richard Wright

1. I am nobody: A red sinking autumn sun Took my name away. 2. I give permission For this slow spring rain to soak The violet beds. 3. With a twitching nose A dog reads a telegram On a wet tree trunk. 4. Burning autumn leaves, I yearn to make the bonfire Bigger and bigger. […]

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Thu, 24.09.2009

BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME by Richard Wright.

And one morning while in the woods I stumbled suddenly upon the thing, Stumbled upon it in a grassy clearing guarded by scaly oaks and elms.
And the sooty details of the rose, thrusting themselves between the world and me. There was a design of white bones slumbering forgottenly upon a cushion of ashes.
There was a charred stump of a sapling pointing a blunt finger accusingly at the sky.

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New Poem Each Day

Poetry Corner

I wake up every morning Honey with the risin' sun I wake up every morning Baby with the risin' sun Thinkin' about my honeydripper And all the wrong she's done When you see my baby Tell... LITTLE BITTIE GAL’S BLUES written by Joe Turner.
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