<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=431607" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Trumpet Player</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Negro<br>With the trumpet at his lips<br>Has dark moons of weariness<br>Beneath his eyes<br>where the smoldering memory<br>of slave ships<br>Blazed to the crack of whips<br>about thighs</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The negro<br>with the trumpet at his lips<br>has a head of vibrant hair<br>tamed down,<br>patent-leathered now<br>until it gleams<br>like jet-<br>were jet a crown</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the music<br>from the trumpet at his lips<br>is honey<br>mixed with liquid fire<br>the rhythm<br>from the trumpet at his lips<br>is ecstasy<br>distilled from old desire-</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Desire<br>that is longing for the moon<br>where the moonlight's but a spotlight<br>in his eyes,<br>desire<br>that is longing for the sea<br>where the sea's a bar-glass<br>sucker size</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Negro<br>with the trumpet at his lips<br>whose jacket<br>Has a fine one-button roll,<br>does not know<br>upon what riff the music slips</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It's hypodermic needle<br>to his soul<br>but softly<br>as the tune comes from his throat<br>trouble<br>mellows to a golden note</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Langston+Hughes">Langston Hughes</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=431607" data-title="Trumpet Player de Langston Hughes" data-description="The Negro With the trumpet at his lips Has dark moons of weariness Beneath his eyes where the smoldering memory of slave ships Blazed to the crack of whips about thighs The negro with the trumpet at his lips has a head of vibrant hair tamed down,..."></div> </div> </div>

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