Alfred R. Bailey - Tomorrow (1925)
Forgotten Poems #56: Opportunities!
—: Tomorrow :— Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow comes— Tomorrow, with its hopes, its cares. The opportunities I lost in yesterday Will urge my slow ambition When tomorrow comes. If yesterday I faltered or grew faint— If yesterday a doubt my heart assailed, Tomorrow I shall persevere, And cast aside the thought that I might fail. Tomorrow.
Alfred R. Bailey (p. 1925, etc.)
This is the only poem I know of by Alfred Bailey, first published in the prominent African American arts magazine, Opportunity, edited by Charles S. Johnson.
For Alfred Bailey By Dick Whyte yesterday rested in the curve of a small brown bowl, a smooth black stone— tomorrow, more dust xoxo dw
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This a great poem by Bailey. I see the eloquent efforts to get better every day, to learn from mistakes, to escape the chains of the past. Thanks, Dick.
Again I prefer your poem, but thanks for introducing this poet to us.