Poetry

Recently rediscovered this poem, Life’s Tragedy, by Paul Laurence Dunbar. First read it in High School and it spoke to me. Although I was too young to fully understand it’s message, I could hear how beautiful it was. Young people have a knack for spotting beauty. The poet, Mr. Dunbar, was the son of freed slaves, born in Ohio less than ten years after the civil war. He was a friend to Orville and Wilbur Wright. They made him a bike, and invested in a newspaper he edited aimed at the black community. His brief life was ended by a bout with tuberculosis at the age of thirty-three.  

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