Listen to more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, iTunes, Stitcher and GooglePlay Music and connect with us @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, and Twitter. -------------------------------------- "A Learned Man Came to Me Once" by Stephen Crane A learned man came to me once. He said, "I know the way, -- come." And I was overjoyed at this. Together we hastened. Soon, too soon, were we Where my eyes were useless, And I knew not the ways of my feet. I clung to the hand of my friend; But at last he cried, "I...
Oct 01, 2018•34 sec
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Sep 30, 2018•32 sec
Listen to more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, iTunes, Stitcher and GooglePlay Music and connect with us @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, and Twitter.
Jul 30, 2018•44 sec
Listen to more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, iTunes, Stitcher and GooglePlay Music and connect with us @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, and Twitter. -------------------------------------- I know I’m not that pretty, But I have a smile that glows. I may not be that pretty, But I know more than you’ll ever know. I may have chubby face: But I can warm you with my grace And I may have height as coal, But I have heart that always grows. So, maybe will come the day when I have perfect cheek bones. But,...
Jul 18, 2018•38 sec
“The Elephant” by Hilaire Billoc Listen to more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, and connect with @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. -------------------------------------- When people call this beast to mind, They marvel more and more At such a little tail behind, So large a trunk before.
Jul 17, 2018•24 sec
Listen to more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, and connect with @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. -------------------------------------- The world has held great Heroes, As history-books have showed; But never a name to go down to fame Compared with that of Toad The clever men at Oxford Know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them knew one half as much As intelligent Mr Toad! The animals sat in the Ark and cried, Their tears in torrents flowed. Who was it said, ...
Jun 25, 2018•56 sec
Listen to more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, and connect with @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. -------------------------------------- "The Harlem Dancer: by Claude McKay Applauding youths laughed with young prostitutes And watched her perfect, half-clothed body sway; Her voice was like the sound of blended flutes Blown by black players upon a picnic day. She sang and danced on gracefully and calm, The light gauze hanging loose about her form; To me she seemed a proudly-swa...
Jun 18, 2018•1 min
Listen to more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, iTunes, Stitcher and GooglePlay Music and connect with us @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, and Twitter. -------------------------------------- "I was born upon thy bank, river" by Henry David Thoreau I was born upon thy bank, river, My blood flows in thy stream, And thou meanderest forever At the bottom of my dream.
Jun 17, 2018•28 sec
Listen to more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, iTunes, Stitcher and GooglePlay Music and connect with us @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, and Twitter. -------------------------------------- "Do You Know What It's Like to Be Free?" by Teyuna T. Darris Do you know what it’s like To be free? Like when you whirl your arms around In the gold-yellow sun And fling your legs in the air? Not caring what anyone say Just a smile in your heart And on your chin. I know what it’s like See, I whirl my heart On a ...
Jun 16, 2018•38 sec
Listen to more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, iTunes, Stitcher and GooglePlay Music and connect with us @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, and Twitter. -------------------------------------- "Answer to a Child's Question" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Do you ask what the birds say? The Sparrow, the Dove, The Linnet and Thrush say, “I love and I love!” In the winter they’re silent—the wind is so strong; What it says, I don’t know, but it sings a loud song. But green leaves, and blossoms, and sunny warm ...
Jun 15, 2018•56 sec
Listen to more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, iTunes, Stitcher and GooglePlay Music and connect with us @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, and Twitter. -------------------------------------- "A Poem" by Teyuna Trynea Darris A poem does not have to rhyme It simply shares a record of a tale about some interesting/practical event that all humans share. A poem is a dream of the pictures we live (daily) of the stories we see, hear, taste, touch--- smell. A poem is a reflection of the people, of the dream...
Jun 14, 2018•1 min
Listen to more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, iTunes, Stitcher and GooglePlay Music and connect with us @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, and Twitter. -------------------------------------- "Invictus" by William Ernest Henley Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place...
Jun 13, 2018•50 sec
Listen to more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, iTunes, Stitcher and GooglePlay Music and connect with us @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, and Twitter. -------------------------------------- "The New Colossus" BY EMMA LAZARUS Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide ...
Jun 12, 2018•24 min
Listen to more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, iTunes, Stitcher and GooglePlay Music and connect with us @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, and Twitter. -------------------------------------- ""The Arrow and the Song" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow" I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For who has sight so keen and strong, That it can fo...
Jun 12, 2018•45 sec
Listen to more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, iTunes, Stitcher and GooglePlay Music and connect with us @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, and Twitter. ______________________________________ “GoodPoetry” What are the prerequisites For good poetry? Is it the layout on the page Or, a pretty word to calm fears Or, to stir emotion Or, to put you in-between? Does good poetry sound good? Are its iambs and pentameters in perfect mode? (or, is it form?) Is it a sonnet or a villanelle? Does it rhyme or unrhy...
Jun 10, 2018•1 min
Listen to more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, and on iTunes, Sticher, the GooglePlay Music store and YouTube. ______________________________________ We’ll Go No More A-Roving by Lord Byron So We'll Go No More a Roving BY LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON) So, we'll go no more a roving So late into the night, Though the heart be still as loving, And the moon be still as bright. For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul wears out the breast, And the heart must pause to breathe, And love itself ha...
Jun 10, 2018•38 sec
Listen to more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.com, and connect with @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. ______________________________________ "My Poetical Side" by Teyuna T. Darris I just thought I'd unleash My poetical side. 'Cause in everyday life, I live to hide. Need something of freedom: From time to time Need something of feeling: To kiss my prime, To hush my cries To love my eyes. I just thought I'd show My virgin side: All kids and maude--- The unaduletered tide. See, I do...
May 27, 2018•47 sec
Listen to more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, and connect with @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram ______________________________________ "Let America Be America Again" by Langston Hughes Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be. Let it be the pioneer on the plain Seeking a home where he himself is free. (America never was America to me.) Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed— Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor ...
May 23, 2018•5 min
"The Red Wheelbarrow" by William Carlos Williams; Read by Teyuna Darris Read and more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, and listen on Audible, iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, Anchor.Fm, iHeart and GooglePlay Music and connect with us @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, and Twitter. ---------------------------- "The Red Wheelbarrow" by William Carlos Williams; so much dependsupon a red wheelbarrow glazed with rainwater beside the whitechickens
May 21, 2018•23 sec•Season 2Ep. 46
Listen to more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, and join @GoodPoetry on Facebook and Twitter. ______________________________________ "Fog" BY CARL SANDBURG The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on.
May 21, 2018•1 hr 14 min
Listen to more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org. ______________________________________ "If-ing" If I had some small change I’d buy me a mule, Get on that mule and Ride like a fool. If I had some greenbacks I’d buy me a Packard, Fill it up with gas and Drive that baby backward. If I had a million I’d get me a plane And everybody in America’d Think I was insane. But I ain’t got a million, Fact is, ain’t got a dime — So just by if-ing I have a good time!
May 21, 2018•41 sec
Listen to more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, and join @GoodPoetry on Facebook and Twitter. ______________________________________ "Fog" BY CARL SANDBURG The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on.
May 21, 2018•26 sec
Listen to more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org. "Snail" Written by Langston Hughes Read by Teyuna T. Darris Little snail, Dreaming you go. Weather and rose Is all you know. Weather and rose Is all you see, Drinking The dewdrop’s Mystery. Langston Hughes From Collected Poems. Copyright ©1994 by The Estate of Langston Hughes.
May 21, 2018•28 min
Listen to "Dream Dust" by Langston Hughes, read by Teyuna T. Darris. Watch "Dream Dust" by Langston Hughes--- www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnwOES3ZC9U
Apr 28, 2018•25 sec
Listen to Phillis Wheatley's poem, entitled, "On Being Brought from Africa to America" read by Teyuna T. Darris. More at www.GoodPoetry.org.
Feb 13, 2014•47 sec
Audio recording of Teyuna T. Darris reading "I Hear America Singing" by Walt Whitman.
Feb 09, 2014•1 min
No matter what we are and who, Some duties everyone must do: A poet puts aside his wreath To wash his face and brush his teeth, And even Earls Must comb their curls, And even Kings Have underthings.
May 27, 2013•32 sec
He had his dream, and all through life, Worked up to it through toil and strife. Afloat fore'er before his eyes, It colored for him all his skies: The storm-cloud dark Above his bark, The calm and listless vault of blue Took on its hopeful hue, It tinctured every passing beam - He had his dream. He labored hard and failed at last, His sails too weak to bear the blast, The raging tempests tore away And sent his beating bark astray. But what cared he For wind or sea! He said, 'The tempest will be ...
May 27, 2013•56 sec
This is a poetry reading from GoodPoetry.org. Today, "I had no time to hate, because" by Emily Dickinson is presented. Narrated by Teyuna T. Darris.
Apr 13, 2013•32 sec
