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Hayden's 'Those Winter Sundays' — a tender, aching poem of paternal love, sacrifice, and the belated recognition of love's austere and lonely offices.
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August 18, 2026 at 5:12 AM
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Those Winter Sundays Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him. I'd wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking. When the rooms were warm, he'd call, and slowly I would rise and dress, fearing the chronic angers of that house, Speaking indifferently to him, who had driven out the cold and polished my good shoes as well. What did I know, what did I know of love's austere and lonely offices?
June 21, 2026 at 1:05 PM
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Frederick Douglass by Robert Hayden | Poems Rethabile Likes
“Shawntay Henry reads Robert Hayden's sonnet 'Frederick Douglass' — a luminous meditation on freedom as a living, earned inheritance.”
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June 15, 2026 at 5:38 AM
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"that you whose wealth, whose tree of liberty
are rooted in the labor of your slaves"

#RobertHayden "Middle Passage"
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Resolution on transatlantic slavery supported by 123 countries, while three opposed it - including the US and Israel
March 25, 2026 at 8:25 PM
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Today is #ReadAbook Weds!! Let's us celebrate the power of POETRY!
Words by #RobertHayden
February 25, 2026 at 3:04 PM
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Frederick Douglass
“Frederick Douglass,” by Robert Hayden
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February 16, 2026 at 5:59 AM
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Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden
Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him. I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking. When the rooms were warm, he’d call, and slowly I would rise and dress, fearing the chronic angers of that house, Speaking indifferently to him, who had driven out the cold and polished my good shoes as well. What did I know, what did I know of love’s austere and lonely offices?
January 4, 2026 at 4:31 PM
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#RobertHayden 💙

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November 29, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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and a 🎁 of #poetry for those of you who need a break from doomscrolling too #waterlilies #monet #roberthayden
This Poem About Monet’s “Water Lilies” Reflects on the Powers and Limits of Art (Gift Article)
“Monet’s ‘Waterlilies,’” by Robert Hayden, reflects on what art can (and can’t) do in tumultuous times. Our critic A.O. Scott shows you why he loves it.
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November 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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"#Art is not escape, but a way of finding order in chaos, a way of confronting life."

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✒️ #RobertHayden, African American poet and educator, was #BOTD 4 August 1913. #Poetry #Literature
August 4, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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Feed: "The Metta Garden"
By: jaysen on Saturday, May 31, 2025
maintaining our humanity…
🌀 may hearts open & may we carry this needed wisdom as we move through this challenging time. ~j ⭕️♥️🙏🏼 #OpenHearts #humanity #NoFear #love #SitDownRiseUp #MindfulResistance #RobertHayden #Jinp…
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May 31, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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may hearts open & may we carry this needed wisdom as we move through this challenging time.

~j
⭕️♥️🙏🏼

#OpenHearts #humanity #NoFear #love #SitDownRiseUp #MindfulResistance #RobertHayden #JinpaLhaga #JMWart
May 31, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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Those Winter Sundays
Robert Hayden
1966
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May 1, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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#RobertHayden "FREDERICK DOUGLASS"

When it is finally ours, this freedom, this liberty, this beautiful
and terrible thing, needful to man as air,
usable as earth; when it belongs at last to all,
when it is truly instinct, brain matter, diastole, systole, ...
January 26, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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#RobertHayden "SOLEDAD"

(And I, I am no longer of that world)

Naked, he lies in the blinded room
chainsmoking, cradled by drugs, by jazz
as never by any lover's cradling flesh.

#MilesDavis coolly blows for him:
O pena negra, sensual Flamenco blues ...
January 26, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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I was introduced to this poem in a high school English class, and found it again years later, and perhaps thought about it the whole time. From Robert Hayden's Collected Poems.

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December 15, 2024 at 2:11 PM
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"EL-HAJJ MALIK EL-SHABAZZ (MALCOLM X)"

O masks and metamorphoses of Ahab, Native Son
1) The icy evil that struck his father down
and ravished his mother into madness
trapped him in violence of a punished self
struggling to break free. ...
December 14, 2024 at 2:16 AM