Sunday, April 16, 2023

  April Is National Poetry Month

“Fire” was the name of a controversial literary magazine that was started by Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Countee Cullen, along with five other prominent Harlem Renaissance figures. The magazine only printed one issue before the headquarters burned to the ground.


Fire

Fire,

Fire, Lord!

Fire gonna burn ma soul!



I ain't been good,

I ain't been clean--

I been stinkin', low-down, mean.



Fire,

Fire, Lord!

Fire gonna burn ma soul!



Tell me, brother,

Do you believe

If you wanta go to heaben

Got to moan an' grieve?



Fire,

Fire, Lord!

Fire gonna burn ma soul!



I been stealin'

Been tellin' lies,

Had more women

Than Pharaoh had wives.



Fire,

Fire, Lord!

Fire gonna burn ma soul!

I means Fire, Lord!

Fire gonna burn ma soul!

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