Loving, Langston Style

Juke Box Love Song
By Langston Hughes



I could take the Harlem night
and wrap around you,
Take the neon lights and make a crown,
Take the Lenox Avenue busses,
Taxis, subways,
And for your love song tone their rumble down.
Take Harlem's heartbeat,
Make a drumbeat,
Put it on a record, let it whirl,
And while we listen to it play,
Dance with you till day--
Dance with you, my sweet brown Harlem girl.

Stuff I Like: Carlos Andres Gomez

another great dance/ culture poem...so good!

"and they were called slave when the sun rose,
but those nights
belonged to them"

Stuff I Like: Roger's "Calypso"

"I lost my virginity to calypso"

Stuff I Like: Aaron Trumm "Blink"

For some reason, I'm really, really feeling the love poems right now. Here's another really good one...

"I dance around the subject with
poems to be prepared
and songs that must be sung
and contacts to be made
and business to be done
there are dreams to be accomplished..."