Meek, Meger, Miles
Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
Poetry, Painting, and Jazz
Juke Box
for
Jigga Lo's and Jigga Lett's
Hip Hop
Are we displaced
Are we hollering
Har - lem
Renaissance word of the past
Renewed, Reborned, Resprited, Rejunivated. em-holla
H a r l e m.
What happens to dreams deferred
do they shribble up like Grapes to Raisins
do they turn to shades of Black and Whites
Seeing myself coming and going
ages of new youth
Am I not the seed of my mother-to-son
Crystal stairs painted with images of thorns
That should not hurt my phonetic images of life
Singing like the cage mocking bird
wanting to run from wilderness
into the wind
into the air
Am I living my dream defer... yes!
About this poem
I wrote this poem in 2008.
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Written on September 11, 2008
Submitted on August 15, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABCDBEFGHIJHKLMGNOPQKRSTU |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 643 |
Words | 121 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 25 |
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