The ‘angry black woman’,
Is me -
We can agree to agree,
Because u see,
I am proud to be - a black woman who is angry
When I see me, I see a fiery spirit,
A passionate girl with nothing to lose -
Except my sanity,
To be happy,
I must be -
The black woman who is angry
Everyday is a battle of strength,
And by the end of the day there is nothing left to give ,
Because to be black is to exist - not live ,
To hide your emotions -
To clench your fist -
To resist,
The urge to scream, to cause havoc
So yes i’m angry - and no i’m not ignorant,
I am just sick and tired of holding it in -
Of pleading my case,
Giving evidence,
And yet after all this -
Still be treated like a mental patient,
Labelled as the ‘angry black woman’
The stereotype -
They label as a disease -
One that takes our right to speak -
To have free speech,
So yes i’m an angry black woman -
And no,
That doesn’t make me crazy
To be an angry black woman,
Is to -
Reclaim the narrative,
Of the right to speak -
On the issues,
You claim -
To be -
Non existent,
I am an angry black woman -
Because I care about my people
Spring is around the corner
Pretty soon
There will be no more ice and werewolves in the streets
Gone will be all types of fire power and terror
Gone will be the bullies, the thugs and the creeps
In the nick of time, when the soil is hot and steamy
All the goons, bandits and henchmen will be gone
Disappeared and dysfunctional like a dirty
And rusty gun
I cannot wait, I cannot wait
No more executions, tears, chaos and hate.
Copyright © January 2026 Hébert Logerie, All rights reserved.
Hébert Logerie is the author of several poetry collections.
Free speech with a tariff attached
Probably priced beyond my reach
Can't buy a visa to get in
No growing in a garden
Factories won't match
When my free speech leaves me
Quality words
With no guarantee
Follower of laws
Only if my speech is free
I must confess my love for poetry
For in it I find great escape
I can right what is wrong with me
Or at least write it away
I love the journey through the mind
Unique turning into something divine
Like classical music for the soul
Love to write with pen of gold
I hate censorship of any kind
For even God gives us free choice
Who dare puts limits on our mind
Just to suffocate violet voice
Once upon a time we had free speech
Not so true these times full of fallacy
Laws over user
Response in violation
I'ma violation of code?
Next sentence no jury
Immediately I lost control
Living is leaving without doors
Pre eminent domain the framers
Constitution
An earth in form
Assembled infantry
Order duty
Follow document
Intercept
Floored
Rent a right
Ambition dollar
Our articulate article
Misses print
Who sided with before, controversial
Higher orders, adjunct military professor of law
Stilled the fix of formatted text
The preferential abandon as treatment
Treat men
War with a battlefield of dying poor
My published records of ink in light
Stopped by outsiders having wishes of rewrite French crime
Penny contorts interest
Depriving satisfaction
Kreb a bus
Now undefine the cost of that writers right
In this absence if article documenting times
How is one literal
Don’t become a mob.
Destruction is not free speech
when it harms others.
This very year..And today' begins a leaching away '
Malign intent has began; a framing' quyeer karma
Will soon be naming.' A raft of dis-reason assembled
Most vainly' for we all saw him plainly.' He claimed to
Humanity.' Free speech was not a novelty.' We have
Had it for many years.' So now it apoears really *****'
That such un-truth was mouthed.' And right in mr Trumps
Right ear.' And right to his face in fact.' I find it most hard to hack!
That there exists an audacity.! To spew such an illitracy?
How much aversion to reality.? Can be tolerable? I fail to see!
That such a man? Should have world status.' Or be? Leader
Of Brittania the scepterd isles, we see..' origin deep; the very
Cauldron of world judicarys.' The seat of much stability.' Allowed to wrap
Chains of false values and claims based in banal iniquity.' To drag
Such a nation down, and almost to its knees.!
Free Speech
Miracle Man
5/1/2024
Disruptive behavior,
is not covered by free speech.
Those practicing this,
are guilty of overreach.
Nor is free speech a right,
to hate or abuse some.
It doesn’t make one an entree,
and some other a crumb.
In learn and teach, practice free speech.! Effective in
Debate. Gaining critical appraisal? that's just fate! You
Will find trial, and lot's of error; yet honestley applied
It negates all of human, fear and terrors.!
"From the River to the Sea
'Palestine' will be free"
Freely articulated ~
Seven million Jews eviscerated
Now do bear with me, for a moment ,please?
I shall not write vacuous poetry on my knees.
The approval of the crowd, is unbearable to seek.
I am truthful,and no, I will not turn the other cheek!
So when you find me as silent as the evening star.
Know that there is more to life, than poetry is life”# cookie jar!
I love to pen about the ingredients of a joyous or grim reality.
For~ to be true to life and one’s own soul is joyful,spiritual fealty!
11/21/2023
Special Dedication to A. Scorpio
Thank you for believing in me, my friend. And
acknowledging my spirit for absolute truth in
poetry…..There can be no dignity of the human
soul ..if we are threatened for telling the truth.
That is the warning that civilization is ending .
All despicable dictators know this technique.
Putin, Xi, Stalin.Hitler.All were killers of free
speech. Poets are not court jesters!
Tens of millions dead …unknown numbers in
prisons as I write.
~Panagiota Romios~
A Swedish man abandoned his plan
to stage a public Torah burning
for which very few were yearning ...
In its wake the UNHRC (United Nations Human Relations Council)
passed a resolution against religious hatred and bigotry
which the United States and European Union opposed
due to 'free speech restrictions,' a blow to every religious minority
~ even Christianity
Freedom is somewhat limited
In a so-called democratic society
At times, people cannot truly tell it like it is
People cannot vote freely
Without some restrictions or some stupidities
In order to weaken the disadvantaged
Even though the US first amendment guarantees
Freedom of speech, freedom of expression
To assemble peacefully, freedom of religion
Freedom is not what it is
It is not how it is articulated in the glossary
Freedom is relative, please
Do not say fire vociferously
Or yell gun in the theater
At church or in the street corner
You will be prosecuted
Freedom is not what it should be
It is not what the US Constitution intended
It to be
Freedom is somewhat controlled and limited.
Copyright © October 2016, Hébert Logerie, All rights reserved
Hébert Logerie is the author of several collections of poetry.
If you prophecy the end of kings you are wrong.
Write no epitaphs, dig no graves, taste no grief.
The new czar, a rough and worldly killer firmly fixed
this very day stirs the cauldron of war to reset empire
Still, foxly friends of tyranny, who stab at weak democracy
praise the czar's autocracy, and mock free speech with treachery.
As modern judases, riding limitless swells of fortune, tease simple mobs
our old republic stagers and fades, mortally wounded by hypocrisy.
Perhaps, someday, freedom’s autopsy will show what transpired,
but if you prophecy the end of kings you are wrong.
When my house is filled with loneliness
It forces me to flee away to the web-pages
To be there to play with the ignorant
I should firstly figure out how to behave
Someone's warning shouldn't be ignored
Which warns me how to post a poem
Which is supposed to expel the boresome out
But needs to map out the inspector's thoughts
I therefore be afraid of expressing freely now
Because of the censorship that they ask for
I am not a man of speaking as I believe anymore
In case I will acquire troublesome even more
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