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Poetic Thoughts - 3 Late Night Tributes: B.D. / To Robert Frost / To Langston Hughes - by C.W. Pruitt II
posted: Jun. 28, 2019
3 Late Night Tributes
In the wee hours I was watching a 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
To Robert Frost
creating
ceaselessly creating
in hopes of creating
one small bit
that will stick
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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