Wisdom's Marching Council
...I know you invited the Brothers to side-line along,
but only if we are here to listen;
Don't speak.
Yet I may have credential for qualifying voice.
For I, like some of you,
know what it means ...
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Categories:
fanon, deep, health, poverty, race,
Form: Political Verse
Fanon
...I was planning on going to Azania to die like you
No one would transport me
Away from the rhetoric, and Fidel left before
I knew. So I wrote on walls
Endless missives of declarations for freedom.
I ...
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Categories:
fanon, tribute, me,
Form: Free verse
Amilcar
...Genius is not a gift to amass self
But must produce and share
The legacy of hunger planted in us
Must grow dreams that men can reap.
Amilcar, you are my perfect genius
Found only in an emancipator's ...
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Categories:
fanon, tribute, people, hope, men,
Form: Free verse
W. E. B. Dubois (From Pages)
...Martin,
Not the German patrician, his vision was a stair
But our own peaceful prince
Well he invoked you
And not by calling Samuel back from the dead
He invoked you as seeker
He invoked as our ...
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Categories:
fanon, history, peopleme,
Form: Free verse
Norman Washington Manley (From Pages)
...The mind is a womb
Copulate it
Let the semen of reason
Part the legs of its cervix
And you will see
When moth struggles before its born
The power of its dreams for flight
Words are eggs, you k...
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Categories:
fanon, history, peopleme, me,
Form: Free verse
Frantz Fanon (From Pages)
...Martinique is in our history too
Not just in our blood
Because Josephine seduced him
To make us reap more bitterness
From the ferment of the sugarcane
Martinique was also his home
His native sh...
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Categories:
fanon, history, peoplehope,
Form: Free verse
Triumphant Leaders Part 2
...Marcus, as a child heard it all, the oral stories
Ancient in glories quickening his vein. Like blood
Rolling where the Roaring river runs, peonies
Calling up ancestral history in dream and flood
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Categories:
fanon, historychild,
Form: Acrostic