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2. Lenin--by Langston Hughes

Reply to TBF (Original post)

Tue Apr 22, 2014, 09:52 PM

Apr 2014

Lenin

Lenin walks around the world.
Frontiers cannot bar him.
Neither barracks nor barricades impede.
Nor does barbed wire scar him.

Lenin walks around the world.
Black, brown, and white receive him.
Language is no barrier.
The strangest tongues believe him.

Lenin walks around the world.
The sun sets like a scar.
Between the darkness and the dawn
There rises a red star.

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Celebrating Lenin's 144th birthday -- [View all] TBF Apr 2014 OP

Had he lived he would be as old as cheney rock Apr 2014 #1

Lenin--by Langston Hughes Starry Messenger Apr 2014 #2

I love that! TBF Apr 2014 #3

Me too. :) Starry Messenger Apr 2014 #4