How still,
How strangely still
The water is today,
It is not good
For water
To be so still that way.

~ "Sea Calm

Langston Hughes

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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

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if you’re going to use the word ‘dream’ in a poem, you had better be langston hughes.

Jewelle L. Gómez

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