Jean Toomer Sun Poems

  • 1.
    The sky, lazily disdaining to pursue
    The setting sun, too indolent to hold
    A lengthened tournament for flashing gold,
    Passively darkens for night's barbeque,
    ...
  • 2.
    Thunder blossoms gorgeously above our heads,
    Great, hollow, bell-like flowers,
    Rumbling in the wind,
    Stretching clappers to strike our ears . . .
    ...
  • 3.
    Money burns the pocket, pocket hurts,
    Bootleggers in silken shirts,
    Ballooned, zooming Cadillacs,
    Whizzing, whizzing down the street-car tracks.
    ...
  • 4.
    I am a reaper whose muscles set at sundown. All my oats
    are cradled.
    But I am too chilled, and too fatigued to bind them.
    And I hunger.
    ...
Total 4 Sun Poems by Jean Toomer

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