Millard Lowe Poet Senryu

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DEEP BLACK THOUGHTS        *

(Apropos Of Civil Disobedience)

 

Majority rules;

civil disobedience

is for whites only:-

 

Civil disobedience—

rights of the majority;

not of lesser Blacks:-

 

Not being a black,

Thoreau claimed rights to civil

disobedience:- 

 

Now, episodes

daily praise whites for civil

disobedience:-

 

We Blacks remain dared

to be disobedient;

claiming civil rights!

 

We’ve won civil rights.

let’s continue in oneness—

beating their divide:-

 

In the dream's oneness,

we must and will overcome—

due to deep black thought:-

 

DEEP BLACK THOUGHTS

DEEP BLACK THOUGHTS        *
(Apropos Of Civil Disobedience)

Majority rules;
civil disobedience
is for whites only:-

Civil disobedience—
rights of the majority;
not of lesser Blacks:-

Not being a Black,
Thoreau claimed rights to civil
disobedience:- 

Now, episodes
daily praise Whites for civil
disobedience:-

We Blacks remain dared
to be disobedient;
claiming civil rights!

We’ve won civil rights;
let’s continue in oneness—
beating their divide:-

In the dreams oneness,
we must and will overcome—
due to deep black thought:-

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