Daily Poetry #3- The Good Man by Gwendolyn Brooks

Hello everyone. Today is the third day of the daily poetry and I wanted to share a poem by Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) called The Good Man. If you did not know, she was was an American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. She was also appointed Poet Laureate of Illinois in 1968 and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1985. You can find out more about Gwendolyn Brooks visiting this link : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwendolyn_Brooks .

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The Good Man by Gwendolyn Brooks

The good man.
He is still enhancer, renouncer.
In the time of detachment,
in the time of the vivid heather and affectionate evil,
in the time of oral
grave grave legalities of hate - all real
walks our prime registered reproach and seal.
Our successful moral.
The good man.

Watches our bogus roses, our rank wreath, our
love's unreliable cement, the gray
jubilees of our demondom.
Coherent
Counsel! Good man.
Require of us our terribly excluded blue.
Constrain, repair a ripped, revolted land.
Put hand in hand land over.
Reprove
the abler droughts and manias of the day
and a felicity entreat.
Love.
Complete
your pledges, reinforce your aides, renew
stance, testament.

The poem can be found on the following website: http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/gwendolyn_brooks/poems/20575