"that you whose wealth, whose tree of liberty
are rooted in the labor of your slaves"

#RobertHayden "Middle Passage"

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Words by #RobertHayden

Frederick Douglass “Frederick Douglass,” by Robert Hayden

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Frederick Douglass po-re-li.blogspot.com/2026/02/fred...

Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him. I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking. When the rooms were warm, he’d call, and slowly I would rise and dress, fearing the chronic angers of that house, Speaking indifferently to him, who had driven out the cold and polished my good shoes as well. What did I know, what did I know of love’s austere and lonely offices?

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Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden

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This Poem About Monet’s “Water Lilies” Reflects on the Powers and Limits of Art (Gift Article) “Monet’s ‘Waterlilies,’” by Robert Hayden, reflects on what art can (and can’t) do in tumultuous times. Our critic A.O. Scott shows you why he loves it.

and a 🎁 of #poetry for those of you who need a break from doomscrolling too #waterlilies #monet #roberthayden

"#Art is not escape, but a way of finding order in chaos, a way of confronting life."

Poems: mypoeticside.com/poets/robert...

✒️ #RobertHayden, African American poet and educator, was #BOTD 4 August 1913. #Poetry #Literature

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may hearts open & may we carry this needed wisdom as we move through this challenging time.

~j
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Those Winter Sundays
Robert Hayden
1966
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#RobertHayden "FREDERICK DOUGLASS"

When it is finally ours, this freedom, this liberty, this beautiful
and terrible thing, needful to man as air,
usable as earth; when it belongs at last to all,
when it is truly instinct, brain matter, diastole, systole, ...

#RobertHayden "SOLEDAD"

(And I, I am no longer of that world)

Naked, he lies in the blinded room
chainsmoking, cradled by drugs, by jazz
as never by any lover's cradling flesh.

#MilesDavis coolly blows for him:
O pena negra, sensual Flamenco blues ...

I was introduced to this poem in a high school English class, and found it again years later, and perhaps thought about it the whole time. From Robert Hayden's Collected Poems.

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"EL-HAJJ MALIK EL-SHABAZZ (MALCOLM X)"

O masks and metamorphoses of Ahab, Native Son
1) The icy evil that struck his father down
and ravished his mother into madness
trapped him in violence of a punished self
struggling to break free. ...