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A TALL DARK ELM ( A TRIBUTE TO LANGSTON HUGHES)
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JOURNAL #34 an unforgettable poet
with a weary world visited 's view
his words preceded him to be
book lover that he was
he told of triumphs
he rhymed of tragedies
and the world came to sit
at his doorstep to see
to languish in his eloquence
of mismatched memories
standing along side
his young man's dreams
through troubles past
the country could appreciate
nearly take on
his personal tone
and recognize wrong as wrong
wherever it was sewn
in the thirties there was no
black and white even
there was just white
black had no place
and any place that
black did have
was small and demeaned
and desperate looking
in its stamped down
every day exhausting of souls
and spirits
whose skin was a little
darker than most
he rattled the sword of unfairness
and forced anyone with eyes
to really see
a man is a man
and his educated mind
is his only real freedom
from all the evil and darkness
he is forced to live under
he brought light and hope
to the legions forced to
stand at the rear
in the streets of America
courtesy of his home in
Harlem
but most of all
looking back
he was man for everyone
an educated describer then
of many forbidden themes
the timeless tale and woeful wish
of one day having
true equality bequeathed
to those in his day
so brutally denied
America today is a better place
for sharing with the world
one of her many great sons
'A Tall Dark Elm' of a man
he was
the likes of Mr.Langston Hughes
amen................................
(Aug. 26, 2008 912pm)
