Langston Hughes

[John Savlove]

I've known rivers:

I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the

           flow of human blood in human veins.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.

I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.

I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it.

I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln

             went down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy

             bosom turn all golden in the sunset.

I've known rivers:

Ancient, dusky rivers.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

[Eva Libre]

i like also the attachment, great photo, great poet..thank you for this, John.