What Happens to a Dream Deferred? (Remix)

What happens to a Dream Deferred?
Does it get clear right before you wake up?
Is it one of your best experiences?
Does it put you in a place full of fun and love,
Then you wake up in a horrible place?
Do you forget it as soon as you finish sleeping,
Or do you never dream?

6 Comments

  1. Victoria on June 28, 2011 at 2:03 PM

    What happens to a dream deferred? They are so fragile and beyond our grasp. Hold your dream and make it real.

  2. ljh on June 30, 2011 at 10:32 AM

    The ideas you are expressing here are really powerful. The idea of a dream as escape, paradise, fantasy – and then the contrast to a harsh waking world… This makes me sad, because it’s true and I can relate to it. I love that you are so inspired by Langston Hughes’ words!

  3. Lana Frankle on July 3, 2011 at 5:20 PM

    I love this, especially the Langston Hughes reference and the way you incorporated that line into your own poem in a new way.

  4. Abby on August 10, 2011 at 1:33 PM

    Kudos for bringing the remix to poetry! Have you read Lorraine Hansbury’s play “A Raisin in the Sun?” it gets it’s name from Hughes’ poem and is truly a great piece of American Drama, plus Danny Glover was in it and who doesn’t love Danny Glover?!

  5. will on August 11, 2011 at 10:32 AM

    i know how you feel

  6. sade on August 11, 2011 at 10:34 AM

    ALWAYS hold on to your dreams no mattter wat

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