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I'M Gonna Write

Poet: Ken Jordan
Poem: I'm Gonna Write
Edited by: Sparkle Jordan
written: August/1988

I'm gonna write about 
my grandmama -

I'm gonna write about 
my mama -

I'm gonna write about
my love......

What I'm gonna do,
and
must do,

Is write about
all
black women
in the world -

About how
warm 
caring
understanding,
and
resourceful 
a black woman
is -

While um write'n 
I ain't
gonna leave
out noth'n -

I'm gonna write about
her hair,
cause her hair
is beautiful -

About here eyes
cause 
Lord knows,
her earthy 
brown eyes
have seen
the vicious dogs
in the streets,

and
hydrants of hate
flood
through her
as though 
she was nothing -

I'm gonna write about
Coretta Scott King,
and
all that her eyes
have seen -

About Winnie Mandela,
about Assata Shakur
about Rosa Parks -

And
while um write'n
I ain't gonna leave out
noth'in -

I'm gonna write about
a black woman's
strength
and
courage,

and how the
Underground 
Railroad,
was born -

I'm gonna write about
a black woman's 
vocabulary,
and
the words
that she speaks,

cause her words
are lived  words,

her words
are 
song words......

"Life every voice and sing
till earth
and
heaven ring,"

I'm gonna write about
a black woman's
shoulder's,
cause her shoulder's
are strong!

I'm gonna write about
her hands,
cause her hands
have laboured 
hard
and
long -

Like
Miss Jane Pittman
like
Harriet Tubman
like
Ida B Wells,

And
while I'm write'n
I ain't gonna leave
out noth'in-

I'm gonna write about
the fact
that she has endured
the test
of time -

She stands for hope
she stands for love
she stands for peace
she stands for freedom
she stands tall
and
She stands proud -

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