Best Negros Poems

From the grounds of the south during the sweltering summer 
of Negros in America*, came white violence and murder.  The 
suppression and degradation of...

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I look all round me and I’m engulfed by shame 
I see people chanting freedom 
But they have nothing tangible to show they are free...

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- - - Chapter 1: Early Days - - - 

My father was a rich man, la, *
Though schooled in poverty, (1)  
As such...

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Eric Mottram on the American literary and cultural scene during 1965-66 while he was the recipient of the American Learned Societies’ award for a year....

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The old woman argued relentlessly, her case.
Resolute, she raved in her conviction; 
two thousand and one reasons were there for her to be mad.
Eleven was...

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White Man’s Good Ole’ Days

I’m the law in these parts;
This here is my town son.
You better learn your place;
Listen up until I’m done.

You can’t eat...

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Translation of Eric Mottram’s 1922 Section 1 by T. Wignesan

for David Attoe

Notre devise pourrait être: ‘que nous nous ne soyons pas envoûtés’
Wittgenstein in Zettel

laissez pendre...

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My first amendment right was never fought for overseas! It was Martin Luther King who was beat to his knees! It was Fanne Lou Hamer...

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Siempre soñé con llegar hacer el hombre de tu vida
Pues en ti siempre miré todo lo que yo queria
Amor, ternura, compasión e infinita alegría
Todo eso...

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The Call To Justice
When the days turn sourer
And the month turns dark
With the years flinging to return no more
Only the lonely already will thrive.

When the...

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espiritu afin huyo
sin razon
embriagantes
nubes grises
bailado y entregado
el odor della lluvia
colgado alli como
un huerfano
los agujeros
negros
en el cielo
mortal
rieron en la cara
abierta un cielo
eres tan hermosa...

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This country 
These people 
have pushed me to this edge 
The ledge was never that stable 
My people are beat in the head with labels...

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Si de pronto no existes, (If of a sudden you were no more,) 
si de pronto no vives,(if of a sudden you live no more,)...

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WHO WILL DANCE
 All of my life
I have been searching 
As i swim across the great river
Of a faired and tinted Negros 
In all corners...

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RAINBOW COALITION

As part of the darkness
All melentolin
what's all the drama
why do we allow predudice
For when we all die we become dirt and dust
Our souls has...

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