Makeup on Empty Space by Anne Waldman

I actually really liked this poem, I pictured all of the color she used and applied it to what made it seem like she was painting. In every empty space, she just seemed to have add things here and there so that the space is now used up in every inch. It just seemed like she put the most random things together and next to each other, etc. She was able to stuff, jam, pack, rebuild everything and anything and put them all together. She would take colors out of everything and created an image for the empty space that was there. It was as if she had amazing abilities and was able to do anything.

Round About Midnight by Bob Kaufman

The speaker seems to live in a place where jazz music is number one with the radio in hand and a lady that is into jazz as well. The more you read, the more the speaker shows the reader that they are in a "jazz" moment where they are surrounded by the jazz melody, a girl that is the kind that loves jazz as much as the speaker does, the "piano laughter" which may also represent people all around the area playing the piano that has a jazz melody to it, while laughing at the lyrics they create, as well as the "soft blue voices" that is heard throughout the air. It seems like every night there is always a "jazz mood" in the air, around the time of 12 midnight.

Harlem By Langston Hughes

This poem seems like it is able a person who has had a dream but has deferred it....meaning they postponed or delayed it for another time in which they will have their dreams come true and be reality. So then they questioned themselves as to what would happen if the dream is deferred, though at the end when the speaker asks "Or does it explode?" it shows that the word "Deferred" not only means "To postpone, to delay" but it also means "to exempt temporarily from induction into military service." It could relate to the military coming in on the speaker and taking everything away so that the dream will not take place, but instead it will "explode."