The Negro Speaks of Rivers

BlackSoultan Ad Infinitum · 07-06-2003, 12:29 AM

I've known rivers:
I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the
flow of human blood in human veins.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.
I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.
I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it.
I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln
went down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy
bosom turn all golden in the sunset.

I've known rivers:
Ancient, dusky rivers.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

-- Langston Hughes

BlackSoultan Ad Infinitum · 07-06-2003, 12:30 AM

I, too, sing America.

I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.

Tomorrow,
I'll be at the table
When company comes.
Nobody'll dare
Say to me,
"Eat in the kitchen,"
Then.

Besides,
They'll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed--

I, too, am America.

-- Langston Hughes

Janitor2 · 07-06-2003, 01:22 AM

nice

Mind~$oul · 07-06-2003, 02:40 AM

I read in the Reader by Langston Hughes that he wrote The Negro Speaks of Rivers, when he was 16 years old

lpoet · 07-06-2003, 09:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BlackSoultan Ad Infinitum

I've known rivers:
I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the
flow of human blood in human veins.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.
I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.
I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it.
I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln
went down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy
bosom turn all golden in the sunset.

I've known rivers:
Ancient, dusky rivers.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

-- Langston Hughes

i remember this from long ago.......always liked this piece...makes me wanna go buy a poetry book

runofthejamill · 09-17-2004, 03:50 PM

really good

™~Vendetta~™ · 10-23-2004, 11:58 PM

Langston Hughes is one of the true Kings of poetry.

Beautiful.

~1~

Brit Boi Gee · 11-09-2004, 07:42 PM

nice! especially the first

DmetriusDog · 11-09-2004, 08:12 PM

im feelin the name of it, actual poem is ill too, but the name is the illest ever heard

absolute zero · 11-09-2004, 10:33 PM

who is janitor 2?????????

07-06-2003, 12:29 AM	#1 (permalink)
BlackSoultan Ad Infinitum aka Billy Shoreview Join Date: Oct 1999 Location: San Fran to the Bahamas back to Cali in L.A. Posts: 17,465	The Negro Speaks of Rivers I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep. I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it. I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset. I've known rivers: Ancient, dusky rivers. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. -- Langston Hughes __________________ http://www.soundclick.com/blacksoultan

07-06-2003, 12:30 AM	#2 (permalink)
BlackSoultan Ad Infinitum aka Billy Shoreview Join Date: Oct 1999 Location: San Fran to the Bahamas back to Cali in L.A. Posts: 17,465	I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong. Tomorrow, I'll be at the table When company comes. Nobody'll dare Say to me, "Eat in the kitchen," Then. Besides, They'll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed-- I, too, am America. -- Langston Hughes __________________ http://www.soundclick.com/blacksoultan

07-06-2003, 01:22 AM	#3 (permalink)
Janitor2 Join Date: May 1999 Location: nash'ville' Posts: 39,922	nice __________________ ''lol. when i picked this girl up she wanted to go to disney world. she got the beach the blunt and the bedroom instead." lol @ beegee

07-06-2003, 02:40 AM	#4 (permalink)
Mind~$oul I'm Pretty Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: North Memphis BITCH! Posts: 17,139	I read in the Reader by Langston Hughes that he wrote The Negro Speaks of Rivers, when he was 16 years old __________________ "Everybody wanna be a nicca, but don't nobody wanna be a nicca"-Paul Mooney "I tried to live right, but society aint made for niccas to live right"-Joe Budden

10-23-2004, 11:58 PM	#7 (permalink)
™~Vendetta~™ Ven Diesel Join Date: May 2004 Location: NY Posts: 653	Langston Hughes is one of the true Kings of poetry. Beautiful. ~1~ __________________ Vendetta aka Justice aka Liqwid Merc

09-17-2004, 03:50 PM	#6 (permalink)
runofthejamill or not. Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 91	really good

11-09-2004, 07:42 PM	#8 (permalink)
Brit Boi Gee manifest the zen Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Near To Athena Posts: 15,853	nice! especially the first __________________ Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel. -William Shakespeare Brit Boi has a highly calibrated wifermometer

11-09-2004, 08:12 PM	#9 (permalink)
DmetriusDog Registered User Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 187	im feelin the name of it, actual poem is ill too, but the name is the illest ever heard __________________ ME

11-09-2004, 10:33 PM	#10 (permalink)
absolute zero I got id. Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: NO NO NO Posts: 7,199	who is janitor 2????????? __________________ They say money changes you but money don't change you it just makes you more of what you already are.

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