Poems from Langston Barboza
LB Hues (Langston Barboza) is an 18 year-old creative writer/poet and spoken word artist originally from Brooklyn, New York raised in Southeast Washington DC. Everything else you need to know about me and my message is shown in my work.
Currently lives in New York City
Twitter: LB_Hues
Tumblr: lbhues
For inquiries or booking: Langstonbarboza@gmail.com
Oh yes, the mighty river flows on
Flows on
Yes the vast Nile waters roll on
Roll on
Baby Africanus
Grown up from the soil
Baby Africanus...
We fall like Autumn Rain
by we, guess who I mean
Us little girls and boys of
The Sun-kissed pigment
Do you think I’m just complainin...
You are the night
Both dark, and perplexing
You are the moon
Who unlike the sun in the day,
Is unnoticed and dismissed as another sight...
Knock Knock
Sit and Imagine, kid
Contemplate, meditate, deliberate
Your time is limited in this vessel
Trails you’ll blaze
Burn...
Let me tell you why my flawlessness
Puts Queen B to shame.
This child’s sending Beyonce back to Destiny’s Child
And knocking Jay Z back to...