WE SHOULD HAVE A LAND OF JOY

WE SHOULD HAVE A LAND OF JOY

The periodically brilliant Poem-a-day website has offered up this wonderfully inclusive poem by the great Langston Hughes, a favourite poet here at The Vampire’s Wife. I love the dejected and regretful final line, ‘And not this land where joy is wrong.’ So beautifully put. Love, Susie x

 

Our Land

We should have a land of sun

Of gorgeous sun,

And a land of fragrant water

Where the twilight is a soft bandanna

Handkerchief

Of rose and gold

And not this land

Where life is cold.

 

We should have a land of trees.

Of tall, think trees,

Bowed down with chattering parrots.

Brilliant as the day,

And not this land where birds are gray.

 

Ah, we should have a land of joy

Of love and joy and wine and song,

And not this land where joy is wrong.

 

Langston Hughes