Saturday Poetry Corner: An Earth Song

 

 

"So let us know-let us press on to know the LORD.  As surely as
 the sun rises, He will appear; He will come to us like the rain, 
like the spring showers that water the earth."

(Hosea 6:3)

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 It's an earth song-

And I've been waiting long

for an earth song. 

It's a spring song,-

 

And I've been waiting long

 

for a spring song. 

 

Strong as the shoots of a new plant

 

Strong as the bursting of new buds

 

Strong as the coming 

 

of the first child

 

from its mother's womb. 

 

It's an earth song,

 

A body song,

 

A spring song.

 

I have been waiting long

 

for this spring song. 

 

 

"An Earth Song"
(1925)
Langston Hughes
(1901-1967)
American Harlem Renaissance poet