Poem of the Month

Something very short and semi-sweet for January!

Langston Hughes was a black american , originator of jazz poetry and  the Harlem Renaissance, writing in the post-WW1 `Charlston era`.  This poem of 1925 introduces Suzette Mayer`s gay novel of 2022, The Sleeping Car Porter - as being read this month by Birmingham`s LGBTQI+ Book Club, Bards & Books.

 

Poem (for F.S.)

I loved my friend

He went away from me.

There`s nothing more to say

The poem ends,

Soft as it began -

I loved my friend.

 

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