Showing posts with label langston hughes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label langston hughes. Show all posts

Friday, September 23, 2011

Dream Deferred

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?


[Rafiqqa]

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Dreams

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
Filled with snow.

- Langston Hughes

[shuyan]