Unbroken Chain By Harold Murphy

This Column is dedicated to the unbroken chain of black poets who have given us a legacy of poetic treasures to share. To the Legacy of

Fitzgerald Beaver, the Founder of THE FACTS Newspaper

The FACTS Family and The FACTS Staff

DOWN-HOME BOY

By: Waring Cuney

I'm a down-home boy

trying to get ahead.

It seems like I go

backwards instead

Been in Chicago

over the year.

Had nothing down home,

not much here.

A measly job,

a greedy boss ---

that's how come at Howard

I left Waycross.

Those Great Lake winds

blow all around:

I'm a light-coat man

in a heavy-coat town.

The Author of this poem is Waring Cuney(1906-1976).He was born in Washington DC. He was educated at Howard and Lincoln University.

He served in the Military in WWII in the South Pacific; is the recipient of numerous poetry awards for his Poetry Collections, studied music in Rome, in New England, and was also a classmate of Langston Hughes at Lincoln University. Another Strong Link in The Unbroke Chain of Black Poetry. And New York.