Addie Poems - Poems about Addie

... Addie Marie Beima. May 20th 1945 - February 21st 2021 Loving Mother & Grandmother. With unfailing love, at some po......Read More

...The biggest funeral I've ever attended... Thelma was a waitress at the diner on the corner of 4th and Oak, across ......Read More

...ken Devils from her past, piercing them with angry blues so condemned… As her mom disabled, leaned on a man who made Addie his manna Dined on precocious curves she’d wish had never been bequeathed Exploding in tantrums she fought unabl......Read More

...irls, whose bodies were modified by hatred and fire, bricks and inequality They metaphorically lynched Cynthia Wesley, Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson, and Denise McNair They lynched the quiet ones, the blessed ones, the powerful ones......Read More

...s. They began in Passaic, New Jersey as the “Poquellos” The four members were Shirley Owens and Beverly Lee, along with Addie “Mickie” Harris, and Doris Coley. These four young girls had a huge stroke of luck for a fate when they had Mary J......Read More

...he innocent pay the ultimate price racism doesn’t care if your church is the 16th Street Baptist and 14 yr. old Addie Mae Collins is one of the four black Alabama children killed in attendance racism ain’t concerned abo......Read More

...For Addie who put up with him Through all those years of scrabble Who left before he came so grim And rose above the rabb......Read More

...sweet Renata Robins that kissed me one June morn. There’s Cal Shirlo and Spud Scanlon, that both died in the war, And Addie Belle from Abilene that said she’d love no more.” Cowpokes yawned and nodded—on this wild words did not dwell— ......Read More

...My name is Addie Shaughnessey, I’m in love with a Cowboy, Though he up and rides away, Time and time again. I understand......Read More