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Best Poems Written by Jada Myricks

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Jazz Baby

In Africa you were born 
In deep serenity
To the sounds of mighty drums 
And rhythm’s authenticity.

Stole you from your righteous land
Cut it up like a birthday cake
Gave it back to Anglo hands
But your birth was no mistake.

Hot sun baked your deep skin
In their souls your people knew
Down in the delta the cotton moved
By the Negro spiritual, you grew.

The teachings of gospel embraced you 
When Abe’s 13th had you lost
When the choir called you responded 
Learned you could share your talent, but at a cost

A burnt cork mask for the audience
Buffoonery and minstrelsy, Jim Crow and Daddy Rice
Exploitation in a racist Nation
Theatrical vice.

You got the blues
Had a melancholy mood
Broke down walls with the drowsy tunes
That free and rootless attitude

On the shoulder of Scott Joplin
Mesmerized with how his fingers played
Ragtime floats on running notes
In New Orleans your future lay.

The melting pot, jazz hotspot 
Black people, white people, blue, and green
Creole heritage swirling all it meets 
Street smart, fine art, everything in between.

Jazz is about freedom
You have to improvise
The band prides the electric ride
Sharing music with each other’s eyes

A jazz baby was born in the USA
Dare I say the American way
Day by Day by Day
A growing Jazz Baby played.

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Ms Color Blind

Dear Friend,
If I could spill my thoughts into your hands for you to carry my loads
You would find them heavy

If I could switch heartbeats with you and have yours play the song that was mine
They wouldn’t listen

If your sights and visions where replaced by mine, that kaleidoscope of color and imagination
Would turn black and white

Don’t try to look for the answers to my problems 
You won’t find them

Don’t pity me or conform me, let my comfort be 
No one has that much time
Time to share with me. Time is the only thing always counted, so precious

So friend don’t carry my load, don’t play my song, don’t look at things black and white just Listen.

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That'Ll Learn Ya

Let’s change your ways Jada
Lets tame the craz’ Jada
Let me see those pearly whites Jada
Let’s make that face a happy place Jada

I’m not trying to change you Jada
Do you care Jada?
Well I didn’t intend to offend you ma’am
 *Gasp* Sass me how dare you Jada

You have got to change that attitude
Your whole demeanor is very rude
Before you talk, you set the mood,
It’s like I don’t give a F-U-C-K about you
Let us start this year anew

Ok miss and mister 
I got an idea…

I won’t catch an”attitude”,
I’ll nod my head like a fool
I won’t argue with these unjust views
I’ll fix my hair to look like you
 Shit, I’ll buy pair of Sperry’s too,
I’ll let my heritage escape
I’ll learn yours to reciprocate 

Look at me now
Can you recognize me sir?
I’m a pitiful duplicate of some advice giving hypocrite
With a whole new aura I’ve been told
A brand new toy, Eureka I fit the mold

Suppressing my emotions is getting old
The only curve now is initialed on my face, 
Smile with all emotions, that’s how you’ll win the race

I’ll fly high 
I’ll make it to the top 
I’ll won’t miss a beat any day  
But now I can’t make myself stop

I call that Assimilation Education
That chapter of my life is done
You’ll get an A++ son 
Just don’t question a thing
and get them naps done

What you didn’t know is 
That I got a secret for you
I am going to live my life happy 
All you can be is you

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Silence

Here is a riddle see if you can follow along:
After I say “because” I want you to say “no one gives a damn”
I obliterate things because “no one gives a damn.”
I am the Disaster  
I will deceive you because “no one gives a damn”
 I am the Trick
I creep around your conscience because “no one gives a damn”
I am Insidious
If you asked what I was 
I wouldn’t answer because “no one gives a damn”   
I am Silence 
 	
	I don’t respond to silence, I don’t even think it counts as a stimulus. For your brain to ever come to an output there must be some input. I think that utilizing your body and voice is way more powerful and necessary than to watch on silently. 
George Benard Shaw:
“Indifference is the essence of inhumanity”.

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Langston Hughes

HUGHES (HUES)

I’ll challenge you to speak of rivers
For the love of Mississippi mud
Purposely I’m a little outcast.

My racial pride has grown from his poetic lines
We pay and pick up all that hasn’t washed away.
Out of yesterday I’ll build my America

Dark Baby’s tomorrow, Dark Baby’s hair, Dark Baby’s hands
Been a slave, a worker, a singer, and a victim:
For the love of my hue I pay my debts to Langston Hughes.

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Saturday Night

Saturday Night. 
Toothpick body strippers tip toe the 3am stroll
Glitter, nines, lipstick, grime 
Time catches the last hours of the night
Heads lay in the treasures of dreams and slumber
A troubled world in sweet tranquility