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PWB Peeps Open Thread: Poetry of Brown [1]
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Date: 2023-03-03
Challenge
by Sterling A. Brown (1901-1989)
I said, in drunken pride of youth and you
That mischief-making Time would never dare
Play his ill-humored tricks upon us two,
Strange and defiant lovers that we were.
I said that even Death, Highwayman Death,
Could never master lovers such as we,
That even when his clutch had throttled breath,
My hymns would float in praise, undauntedly.
I did not think such words were bravado.
Oh, I think honestly we knew no fear,
We loved each other so.
And thus, with you believing me, I made
My prophecies, rebellious, unafraid . . . .
And that was foolish, wasn’t it, my dear?
This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day on February 12, 2023, by the Academy of American Poets.
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