Poet Jean Toomer

Jean Toomer

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Jean Toomer Sweet Poems

  • 1.
    Hair-braided chestnut,
    coiled like a lyncher's rope,
    Eyes-fagots,
    Lips-old scars, or the first red blisters,
    ...
  • 2.
    Thunder blossoms gorgeously above our heads,
    Great, hollow, bell-like flowers,
    Rumbling in the wind,
    Stretching clappers to strike our ears . . .
    ...
  • 3.
    Hair--braided chestnut,
    coiled like a lyncher's rope,
    Eyes--fagots,
    Lips--old scars, or the first red blisters,
    ...
  • 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 Sweet Poems by Jean Toomer

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Another day of toil and strife,
Another page so white,
Within that fateful Log of Life
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Another page without a stain
To make of as I may,
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