Harlem by Langston Hughes
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
The Meadow by Marie howe
As we walk into words that have waited for us to enter them, so
the meadow, muddy with dreams, is gathering itself together
Hawks by Lynn UnGar
Surely, you too have longed for this --
to pour yourself out
on the rising circles of the air