Converted from paper version of the Broad Ripple Gazette (v04n06)
Poetic Thoughts - 3 Late Night Tributes - by C.W. Pruitt II
posted: Mar. 23, 2007
3 Late Night Tributes
In the wee hours of August 27, 2006 I was watching the Bob Dylan special on PBS. It inspired me to write a poem on his emergence. Then I threw in tributes to Robert Frost and Langston Hughes.
B.D.
in just
a couple
of months
a transformation
took place
which made
his art
unrecognizably awesome
to those
who had
seen
his art
before
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To Robert Frost
creating
ceaselessly creating
in hopes of creating
one small bit
that will stick
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To Langston Hughes
party all night -
when every one else
is asleep -
do your writing
wake up in the afternoon
then
do it all over again
an ode to one who
wrote beautifully
and made many friends
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