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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
INTERRACIAL, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let's build bridges here and there Last Line: And span the gulf of challenge there. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Brotherhood | |||
Let's build bridges here and there Or sometimes, just a spiral stair That we may come somewhat abreast And sense what cannot be exprest, And by these measures can be found A meeting place -- a common ground Nearer the reaches of the heart Where truth revealed stands clear, apart; With understanding come to know What laughing lips will never show: How tears and torturing distress May masquerade as happiness: Then you will know when my heart's aching And I when yours is slowly breaking. Commune -- The altars will reveal. . . We then shall be impulsed to kneel And send a prayer upon its way For those who wear the thorns today. Oh, let's build bridges everywhere And span the gulf of challenge there. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE RESTAURANT by DAVID IGNATOW BROTHERHOOD by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON INEVITABLY (2) by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON SPEECH TO THOSE WHO SAY COMRADE by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH BROTHERHOOD (2) by EDWIN MARKHAM FOR ELI JACOBSON by KENNETH REXROTH OLD BLACK MEN by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON |
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