Blacker Than Black
There is evil that offends evil.
There is black that is blacker than black.
There is fault-free blood that is a running river.
There is inhumanity that supercedes insanity.
How shall we call it, write it, remember it?
Putin is its name.
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Categories:
blacker, child abuse, corruption, holocaust,
Form: Free verse
A Blacker Black
More pressing matters call…
time enough for the truth
(The New Room: August, 2021)
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Categories:
blacker, truth,
Form: Free verse
A Blacker Shade of Pale
I remember when she looked at me with love
I never looked away
I remember when she touched me with care
but now careless her touch still heals
I remember when i whispered sweet nothings
now words are not so sweet
I remember happiness
now sadness lives the days
I remember promises
with so much promise
I remember lies
that lie now at peace
I remember
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Categories:
blacker, poetry,
Form: Free verse
About Being Blacker
Nobody loves themself more than a black person does
nobody is as big-hearted to call strangers ‘bro or ‘cous
always hugging and kissing to convey what can’t be said
Expressing the way they feel with a gentle stroking of the head
Nobody engages in thoughtfulness more than black people do
they have to be fully persuaded before they decide to
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Categories:
blacker, identity, love, truth, wisdom,
Form: Quatrain
The Blacker the Berry
THE BLACKER THE BERRY..
Misconception dims the path that leads her brown Clay
To shallow waters where she can never float like a butterfly but always stings like a bee
She is only good at germinating in dim waters like
Deep intellectual conversations
Always warrant entry into shallow society
Dictating that she could not have possibly been supple at first sight
She
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Categories:
blacker, africa, body, mirror,
Form: Blitz
Blacker Than Black Rain
BEGINNING…
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gray moon eating black,
sparrows flush red coughing rain
slums of streets decay
CONTINUING…
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drenched women bleeding
broken spills of spines, alms… alms
devil torrent tears
ENDING…
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spikes of bones splattered
drowned by screeching sounds silenced…
rain begets mud tombs
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(( for SKAT's "Dark Rain" Contest" --Haiku ))
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Categories:
blacker, angst, natural disasters
Form: Haiku