Georgia Douglas Johnson:

BLACK WOMAN

OLD BLACK MEN

back to

Snally Gaster's African American Phat Library Experience

Not enough poems here? Email me your favorite works of the masters (no amateurs please).

CONTACT


 

 

BLACK WOMAN


 Old Black Men

They have dreamed as young men dream
of glory, love and power;
they have hoped as youth will hope
of life's sun-minted hour.

They have seen as others saw
their bubbles burst in air,
they have learned to live it down
as though they did not care.