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
This is one of my all time favorite poems. It helps me remember that i should follow my dreams and not to wait for their pursuit or push them aside.
I remember the first time i read it. i couldn't just read it once i read it over and over again. i fell in love with every letter written on the page...it was like a magnet...it drew me in. i sat repeating the words over and over again in my head, wishing i was as talented as this man to come up with such a marvelous piece of art, with such a simple thing as words.
About Me
- ♥Brycie Girl♥
- i'm a young girl just trying to get along in this crazy world we all live in. i have my glorious moments but i also have many down points to the breaking point of tears. over all i'm just Bryce, one person out of many.
brycie girl, this is a beautiful work and it doesn't surprise me at all that it's one of your favorites. you have a depth that i enjoy so much...you are, and will always be, my favorite granddaughter ;)
ReplyDeletea beautiful poem by Langston Hughes,
ReplyDeleteloved it.
thanks for sharing!
Happy Tuesday!
Wow Brycie...it is so refreshing to read & hear your thoughts ... they mirror my thoughts when I was the tender age of 15. There is one piece of advice I would like to give you as a 42 year old, is to keep a journal & record everything, it helps you to recall things that somehow fade in clarity as the years pass on by. It would be one of the greatest presents you could give yourself.
ReplyDeleteI love that poem! I've never read it before. I thought at first that you had written it. I was impressed! I'm still impressed. You, too, have a way with words.
ReplyDeleteWelcome to the blogosphere! Hope you are gonna stay with us for a loooong time. That's one beautiful poem up there. I never read it before so thanks for introducing e to it and to yourself :)
ReplyDeleteI love this poem too. I think it's so important to keep close to you all the art you love. Because it tells you scads about yourself, and eventually you develop your own original voice.
ReplyDeleteI hope you keep blogging!
Oops! didn't mean to double post!
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