Importantly Poems

Hurricane Katrina - 20 years later

...On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina stormed through New Orleans and Louisiana. The only difference was, in New Orleans (intentional or not), the levees broke. The flood waters flooded the 9th ward ...

The boy who lived in the dark

...Isolation. 
He lived In a house that was never his home
He lived without a key and a place to call his own
Silence.
His mind his only friend 
Dark just like his surroundings 

His crime:
Not ...

THE HEARING OFFICERS HIRED TO SEDUCE ME HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY

...LIVING IN EXHILE WITH RETIRE SENIOR MASTER SGT HENRY WILLIAMS OF MACDILL AIRFORCE BASE TAKING MY GRANDDAUGHTER TO SCHOOL I WAS BEING FOLLOWED EVERYDAY ONE RAINY DAY HE ASKED IF I NEEDED A RIDE I WAS ...

Blinding Love

...I wanna feel that blinding love, The one you'd live for
The one which feels like sunshine and rain on your face. 
The one that feels like the first leaves of the fall.
I wanna witness the summer o...

The many languages of black voices

...We dont have to use our voice to scream
Because a voice isn't just words
It's art, it's our presence, it's how we exist
It's being unapologetically black

Our presence is like the rain after a d...

Eisenhower Postage Stamp

...I remember it very well.
It was before the birth of email.
It was a real 'show and tell, and
It rings in my heart like a bell.

Mankind has always found bigger
And better ways to communicate.
...

The Essence of Love

...Author  Dana Redricks 
July 7, 2025

Many use the word love, but do they really know what it means? Love is eternal and never does it ever go away. True love is here to stay. True love is the esse...

Winter Withers

...Winter Withers

…… its way into the woods
and waits….and wonders….and watches
until…. No-one is looking.
Boorishly, an ally introduces itself,
an iced-sliced wind to quiver-shiver
the woods’ m...

Lessons from Shakespeare

...Lessons from Shakespeare 

Here’s a song of tragedies
Four plays from bygone times
Shakespeare did the penmanship
For  these  heroic crimes.
Hamlet was a stately prince
King Lear a royal dad
...

Lily Bug the Mighty Pug

...(Lily, summer 2025)

Lily Bug the Mighty Pug

Lily bug the mighty pug,
All 13 months and 15 pounds of,
Just goes to show the unbridled 
Power of nature
Supremely confident
Maniacally ...

Mars Has No Wars

...It's not red, like they said.
It's white, green, pink, blue
And all other fascinating hues.
Not the grays I am used to.

I was told there is no air here, 
Yet every breath is crisp and sheer
N...

AI

...("Three Lives", 2011, original acrylic and oil)

A.I.

I’m smart, or kind of compared to other humans,
But not at all compared to artificial intelligence.
Yet I have no doubt I am superi...

Identity Crisis

...
Long after midnight
in late December
woke one night in total fright
as where I was did not remember
but more importantly
couldn't see
the forest for the trees
and did not recall myse...

Seeds

...Blackbirds actively search for food, yet not all seeds have the potential to germinate. Poets draw their inspiration from seeds, birds, and the sun. When a bird drops a seed in the forest, the sun pr...

I am the captain

...I am the brave sailor 
My crew mates, friends,
Clothed in sorrow
Like lost children
Following the nearest stranger home

I lead them with my heart
As we sail through the masses 
Of our duly c...

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