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Spotlight Poetry – Juke Box Love Song – A Poem by Langston Hughes

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Juke Box Love Song by Langston Hughes

I could take the Harlem night
and wrap around you,
Take the neon lights and make a crown,
Take the Lenox Avenue buses,
Taxis, subways,
And for your love song tone their rumble down.
Take Harlem’s heartbeat,
Make a drumbeat,
Put it on a record, let it whirl,
And while we listen to it play,
Dance with you till day—
Dance with you, my sweet brown Harlem girl.

Poem Attribution © Langston Hughes, Juke Box Love Song

Source Attribution https://allpoetry.com/Juke-Box-Love-Song

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Painting Attribution © Leon Zernitsky, Traditional Jazz, 2021

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