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Langston Hughes (1902 - 1967 / Joplin / Missouri)
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Born in Joplin, Missouri, James Langston Hughes was the great-great-grandson of Charles Henry Langston (brother of John Mercer Langston, the first Bla .. more >>
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Dream Deferred

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  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?

Langston Hughes


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  Kartik Saraf  (12/30/2009 11:05:00 PM)

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  Tai Chi Italy  (8/1/2009 6:30:00 PM)

Lovely...but not for the dreamer.
  A .  (7/16/2009 12:56:00 PM)

good, very good................................. :)
  Necib Ilhem  (6/12/2009 11:57:00 AM)

I realy liked this poem 'Dream' because it makes me a way for thinking and for creating a good imagination about the life. So without dream the life has no meaning and human being wouldn't do any thing without it's
  Josephine De Leux  (6/1/2009 6:52:00 AM)

Grizzly man, there's no use campaigning to a dead guy. Read, darling.
  nothing over  (4/27/2009 10:59:00 PM)

Great poem, check out my poems too
  Deborah Schuff  (3/20/2009 11:26:00 PM)

Langston Hughes was very much into jazz and incorporated 'jazz tones' into many of his poems, including this 'Dream Deferred' series. Imagine these poems being played by a jazz band or scatted by a jazz singer in order to enjoy the full effect.

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