Comments on: With Hope, Good Morning America

By: Emily

Emily — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 03:12:41 +0000

oh, yeah, and
Christie – cool

By: Emily

Emily — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 03:12:17 +0000

MN – cold
Poetry – warm
Obama – hot

By: mellimel

mellimel — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:30:53 +0000

Praise Song for A Morning!!!!!

By: Rosemary

Rosemary — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 06:41:18 +0000

The English Teacher in me had to get it just right! I was a little off w/sentence structure and syncopation (makes a difference in poetry ya know).

M O T T O

I play it cool
and dig all jive
That’s the reason
I stay alive.
My motto,
As I live and learn,
is:
Dig and Be Dug
In Return.

Langston Hughes

By: Carine

Carine — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:28:11 +0000

I must admit that the way I usually describe myself as a writer (and constant reader) is to say that I can write anything except poetry. Poetry always seems beautiful when I read it, but my controlling brain wants to make the words (rather than the feeling that fuels them) make sense. The way I’ve learned to love poetry is in the spoken word performances that have become so popular. Poetry it is, but hearing it spoken by their authors, rather than reading the words, is what’s made it come alive for me!

By: Christie

Christie — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:56:44 +0000

What a day! And what great comments about poets, poetry, and what poetry does for our minds and hearts and souls. Dear Old Langston Hughes, he was the definition of “Hip.” Just hear the jazz in his Motto. I am digging all of these comments.

By: rosemary

rosemary — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:24:42 +0000

One of my favorite simple poems by the late, great African-American poet Langston Hughes was written at the height of the Harlem Renaissance. It has helped me live my life and reminds me so much of our new President:

MOTTO
I play it cool and dig all jive;
That’s the reason I stay alive.
My motto as I live and learn
is dig and be dug in return.