Darrell Collins Poet Crown of Sonnets

The Caged Bird Still Sings

Written By:  D. Collins 7/7/25


I know the names of some of the greatest to ever dawn black skin.
Dr. Charles Drew, Miles Davis, Malcolm X, and James Baldwin.
Generations from now their achievements will be overlooked.
Due to coordinated efforts to remove them from history books.


There were the Buffalo Soldiers and Tuskegee Airmen.
Maya Angelou and descriptive writings of Toni Morrison.
We had Dr. Martin Luther King and Muhammad Ali.
Who gave hope to a population of people like me.


We've endured the longest deprivation mankind has faced.
You cannot remove something that refuses to be erased.
We've heard broken promises that never came about.
The Caged Bird Still Sings loudly from the top of the mount.

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Darrell Collins July 10, 2025 at 6:04 PM I can appreciate your conviction, but until you've lived it, done it, or wore my ancestry shoes (or lack thereof). Good is Good but that ain't what we got (450 years later).

Darrell Collins July 10, 2025 at 6:02 PM I can appreciate your conviction, but until you've lived it, done it, or wore my ancestry shoes (or lack thereof). Good is Good but that ain't what we got (450 years later).

Darrell Collins July 10, 2025 at 5:56 PM I can appreciate your conviction, but until you've lived it, done it, or wore my ancestry shoes (or lack thereof). Good is Good but that ain't what we got (450 years later). Darrell Collins July 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM Religion was whipped and hanged into us....Did that happen to your bloodline?

Darrell Collins July 9, 2025 at 5:28 PM Hello again Tom. It seems we have you beat by about 250 years. The Jehovah’s Witnesses are an outgrowth of the International Bible Students Association, which was founded in 1872 in Pittsburgh by Charles Taze Russell. 1619: The beginning of slavery in America is often marked by the arrival of 20 enslaved Africans in Jamestown, Virginia, brought by English privateers who had seized them from a Portuguese slave ship. This marked the start of what would become a massive and brutal system of forced labor.

Darrell Collins July 7, 2025 at 9:07 AM Hello Artsy Odyssey. Thank you for the slew of compliments. Nothing in this world is "minimal" as far as I'm concerned. I would certainly be interested in expanding truth through collaboration.