Showing posts with label Georgia Douglas Johnson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Georgia Douglas Johnson. Show all posts

Saturday, September 12, 2015

‘Stumble down life’s checkered street’

     
Poets.org, the website of the Academy of American Poets, offers this today:


Brotherhood

Come, brothers all!
Shall we not wend
The blind-way of our prison-world
By sympathy entwined?
Shall we not make
The bleak way for each other’s sake
Less rugged and unkind?
O let each throbbing heart repeat
The faint note of another’s beat
To lift a chanson for the feet
That stumble down life’s checkered street.

- Georgia Douglas Johnson


Georgia Douglas Johnson was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1880. A member of the Harlem Renaissance, her collections of poetry include The Heart of a Woman (The Cornhill Company, 1918) and Share My World (Halfway House, 1962). She died in 1966.