A Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes

[ravengirl.livejournal.com]

What happens to a dream deferred?

  Does it dry up
  like a raisin in the sun?

  Or fester like a sore--
  and then run?

  Does it stink like rotten meat?
  Or crust and sugar over--
  like a syrupy sweet?

  Maybe it just sags
  like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?

 

Langston Hughes
"A Dream Deferred"

Comments

[aria-muse.livejournal.com]

haha this poem reminds me of the strangers with candy episode where chuck noblet reads this poem after jerri stars as the mom in "a raisin in the sun". anyone?

[moireach.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, yesssss.

And finally, being cast in the lead in the role of Mama, the poor but proud heavy set African-American woman... Jerri Blank.

[m-m-m-mother.livejournal.com]

This is very nostalgic for me! Thank you.

[bikerides.livejournal.com]

Or does it explode?

The best

[daisy-fields.livejournal.com]

I hate this poem.

[puppetsteal.livejournal.com]

Love the imagery. Thanks for sharing.

[malfeasanceses.livejournal.com]

So visceral and gross. I love it.