#dream deferred

[persianflaw]

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it:

dry up like a raisin in the sun

fester like a sore - and then run

stink like rotten meat

crust and sugar over - like a syrupy sweet

just sag like a heavy load

explode

Voting ended onMar 26, 2023

[mvaljean525]

Good morning, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred?

Listen closely: You'll hear their feet Beating out and beating out a —

You think It's a happy beat?

Listen to it closely: Ain't you heard something underneath like a —

What did I say?

Sure, I'm happy! Take it away!

Hey, pop! Re-bop! Mop!

Y-e-a-h!

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Dream Boogie

Langston Hughes  1902-1967

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Graphic - Oluwole Omofemi  (B.1988)

[eyes-of-laura-mars]

What happens to a dream deferred? For Charles Manson, it meant going scorched earth when his dreams didn't come true.

[outstanding-quotes]

Langston Hughes, “Harlem [2]”

[rave-demon]

Devin Wild - Dream Deferred (Official Videoclip)

[diomedrian]

Okay, baby, if it makes you feel better, you can imagine your worst case scenario. You can imagine a monster but that doesn’t make it real.

Yena Sharma Purmasir from ‘Dream Deferred’ from her book When I am Not There

(This book honestly is very quickly becoming everything I ever wanted in my father. He isn’t dead. He is very much alive and in good health and comes home every night but he doesn’t rly feel like my father. I am SO thankful Yena wrote this book. I didn’t know I needed it until I had it.)

[kendramack-blog]

Deferred

What happens to a poem deferred? When one can’t find That word upon word That will capture All that should be said -- Does it fall to The back of the head? Or fizzle -- pop! -- Then drop dead? Does it whisper, Scream or shout? Or does it just squirm ‘Til it finds Its way out?

[badgerslrc]

Dream Deferred

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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