"Harlem" by Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes was one of the most famous and important names to spring from the Harlem Renaissance. This poem was chosen today by request.

Harlem
by Langston Hughes

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?





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