"No Images" by William Waring Cuney
She does not know
Her beauty,
She thinks her brown body
Has no glory.
If she could dance
Naked
Under palm trees
And see her image in the river,
She would know.
But there are no palm trees
On the street,
And dish water gives back no images.
Her beauty,
She thinks her brown body
Has no glory.
If she could dance
Naked
Under palm trees
And see her image in the river,
She would know.
But there are no palm trees
On the street,
And dish water gives back no images.
Este poeta y músico afro-americano nació en Washington DC, 1906. Vivió en carne y hueso el renacimiento en Harlem, NYC. Escribió el poema "No Images" a los 18, con el cual ganó dos premios literarios. Y lo conocí gracias a la bella, poderosa interpretación de Nina Simone.
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