Millard Lowe Poet Prose

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TO THE TASK AHEAD FOR OUR WRITERS

 

No one can write our story but us;

His story merely footnotes us:-

In the culture of the penned word,

We must personally ink ourstory;

Footnoting history’s keloid pains:-

 

In doing so, the rules must be ours

As opposed to those of anglophobia:-

In our midst, do we not have

Our own Prophets, Scribes, and Seers?

Do we not have our own worthy Griots?

 

Let us not write for their critics, but for ourselves,

Demonstrating mastery of the enforced language

Through which we must uniquely cipher flowing lines;

Deciphering coded lies from undeniable living truths:-

Can an indigenous fruit be a “native” of one that’s not?

 

TO THE TASK AHEAD FOR OUR WRITERS

TO THE TASK AHEAD FOR OUR WRITERS

No one can write our story but us;
His story merely footnotes us:-
In the culture of the penned word,
We must personally ink ourstory;
Footnoting history’s keloid pains:-

In doing so, the rules must be ours
As opposed to those of anglophobia:-
In our midst, do we not have
Our own Prophets, Scribes, and Seers?
Do we not have our own worthy Griots?

Let us not write for their critics, but for ourselves,
Demonstrating mastery of the enforced language
Through which we must uniquely cipher flowing lines;
Deciphering coded lies from undeniable living truths:-
Can an indigenous fruit be a “native” of one that’s not?

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