Showing posts with label Langston Hughes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Langston Hughes. Show all posts

Monday, January 17, 2011

Dreamers


Primo came home from school last week and told me he’d learned a poem by Langston Hughes. “What is it?” I asked him. He made his face very solemn and then recited:

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


I’m not gonna lie, I tore up,

Happy Martin Luther King Jr Day, dreamers,