Juke Box Love Song

Heya!

I hope my words find you well!...I want to share someone elses words with you today... Some of you may know Langston Hughes, he was a poet, born in 1902, and he wrote some of the most beautiful poems I have ever read...I started writing poems and songs when I was about fourteen, and I wasn't very good, but there was something that I just loved, and still do, about using words to paint memories and feelings and smells...So when my big sister (Kilara) had laid one book in particular aside, I decided to dive in. This book was a collection of poems from a man, up until then unknown to me, called Langston Hughes, and after the first few poems I realised that his use of words would be to me like a melody I would forever dance and hum along to....

I hope that you may be inspired to read some of his poems, and if not then I hope you will at least appreciate this here poem that was one of the first of his to make a real impression on me.....here it is....enjoy...

p.s. thanks kilara...

Juke Box Love Song

I could take the Harlem night and wrap around you,
Take the neon lights and make a crown.
Take the Lennox Avenue busses,
Taxis, Subways,
And for your love song tone their rumble down.
Take Harlem's heartbeat,
Make a drumbeat,
Put it on a record, let it whirl,
And while we listen to it play,
Dance with you till day...
Dance with you, my sweet brown Harlem girl

Langston Hughes