Gwendolyn Brooks Sun Poems
- 1. Boy Breaking Glass
To Marc Crawford
from whom the commission
Whose broken window is a cry of art
(success, that winks aware
... - 2. The Life Of Lincoln West
Ugliest little boy
that everyone ever saw.
That is what everyone said.
... - 3. The Lovers Of The Poor
arrive. The Ladies from the Ladies' Betterment League
Arrive in the afternoon, the late light slanting
In diluted gold bars across the boulevard brag
Of proud, seamed faces with mercy and murder hinting
... - 4. Truth
And if sun comes
How shall we greet him?
Shall we not dread him,
Shall we not fear him
... - 5. Speech To The Young : Speech To The Progress-toward
Say to them,
say to the down-keepers,
the sun-slappers,
the self-soilers,
... - 6. To The Diaspora
you did not know you were Afrika
When you set out for Afrika
you did not know you were going.
... - 7. A Sunset Of The City
Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
My daughters and sons have put me away with marbles and dolls,
Are gone from the house.
My husband and lovers are pleasant or somewhat polite
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