Best Afro American Poems

(APROPOS OF THE MANY OF US: THE GREEN VILLAGE)


    PROLOGUE:

    Some don’t quite get it…
    Life will reveal it to you:
    Mothers are of God.

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In our Hearts Burn…A Love of God and Country that...through it all...has not diminished! We Press on, Amen!


There comes a time when…we…

must pause to diligently survey

our history!

When, at a place of reflection…we…

walk back through…fields…of what

used to be!
 

This must be done to comprehend fully

what is...

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Chocolate lotus lips
A planted peach tongue
And ebony seeding eyes
I am the garden you greet
With thick calloused thumbs
And warm loving palms

How can I be so selfish
to deny you me to deny me you?
I don’t know about tomorrow
Next five years too much to ponder
For I am like...

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