It may not always rhyme, and its meter may not always be of the proper length, still it weaves a line, and image, like the Weary Blues, remains in one's head. If that is not poetry, what is?
Fine poem and fine essay. I'd never thought of Vachel Lindsay and Langston Hughes together--evidence of my ignorance, as I can see from the Wikipedia article on Lindsay.
Thank you! Found this Substack in early AM, just what I needed, and reminded me how much I enjoyed the art of poetry .. especially in my 20s, when I had much more time to search for “the beautiful” (of course: looking for the good and true).
It may not always rhyme, and its meter may not always be of the proper length, still it weaves a line, and image, like the Weary Blues, remains in one's head. If that is not poetry, what is?
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Fine poem and fine essay. I'd never thought of Vachel Lindsay and Langston Hughes together--evidence of my ignorance, as I can see from the Wikipedia article on Lindsay.
Lindsay discovered him, the first to recgonize his skill, when Hughes was a bus boy and gave the older poet some of his poems.
Thank you! Found this Substack in early AM, just what I needed, and reminded me how much I enjoyed the art of poetry .. especially in my 20s, when I had much more time to search for “the beautiful” (of course: looking for the good and true).