Long Bird on the wing Poems

As soon as I heard 
You were the First African American Male
To win the Pulitzer prize for Poetry
I wanted to run out and celebrate
I wanted to wake up Hughes and Dunbar
And Baraka and say we...

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Admit To Myself
By Roy Merritt 

The air is cold against my skin as I stand here on the street
Waiting at the place where you said we should meet
But looking at my watch I can see...

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“Let’s fly!” said the little bird up in a tree.
“But I’m scared” said the bigger bird.
“Scared? You?” said the little bird,
“Don’t worry, I’ll catch you if you fall.”
“But the big wise owl,” said the bigger...

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"I dismounted, seated myself on an eminence, and began to mark with my pencil, making a dot for every flock that passed. In a short time finding the task which I had undertaken impracticable, as...

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Sympathy

BY PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR

I know what the caged bird feels, alas!
    When the sun is bright on the upland slopes;   
When the wind stirs soft through the springing grass, ...

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When I was a kid and school was out, I'd rush home for milk and cookies.
And mom would give me a note and some money to run an errand for her.
But first I'd bike down...

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Do I live in Paradise or a constant living hell
In four walls that surround me like a sentinel
Are these bars that lock away all hope of life
Or a sanctuary from rejection, life’s horrors and strife
Are...

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Without love we’re like birds with broken wings,
Unable to soar to where our heart sings,
We’d never know the waterfalls of affection,
We’d be travellers with no sense of direction.

We need people to notice we are there,
We...

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Happiness is the first rain that breaks the drought,
           Seeing the joyful faces on farmers all about.
Happiness is a young child soaring high on a...

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Eyes beyond mortal scale,
Armoured ships upon the ocean sail;
Voices charging the air's bluff
As souls rises and fall to the rifle's cough

So still was the air waves
Survival was it the soul craves
Blends of atrocities and human...

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Soothing silence, 
faint whisper of wind, 
such calm, 
as I sit beneath shady palm 

I close my eyes , 
feeling warmth on my face, 
relaxed sigh, 
this is my place 

For the job is done,...

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Soothing silence, 
faint whisper of wind, 
such calm, 
as I sit beneath shady palm 

I close my eyes , 
feeling warmth on my face, 
relaxed sigh, 
this is my place 

For the job is done,...

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Distrait within the dismal night
while drifting down deserted track...
Beyond the bend, a lantern light
illumed alone the vacant black.  
Such are the tricks that fate will feign
with passing trains in winter rain.

The darkling sky sighed,...

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Hand in hand with the breaking pink light of dawn, 
A light east breeze dances on tiptoes upon the water’s surface. 
I stand on the wooden deck, looking out onto the quiet bay,
Scattered boats gently...

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What kind of ego is required to ignore
The obvious love of Creator and King, 
As if there were profit in pushing aside, 
The air that you breathe or the bird it's own wing.

His temple, your...

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The Raven
I sat on the terrace over the kitchen, taking the sun
when a raven came, sat on the railing, eyeing me
It decided I was not a risk, but it cawed to the dog
she uneased, walked...

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This lone bird
flying alone,
in grey overcast,
seems so absurd

Dipping and swooping,
crazy circles,it makes
Such joy ,hard to fake,
inner whooping

For there is no season,
when to fly,
no reason,
not to try

Lone bird,
so high,
I wonder why?

Wings of grey,
match the cloud
Shades of...

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The great love of my life passed me by
But I’ll still love her till the day that I die
She made a tragic mistake and now knows
Exchanged love for mere bangles and bows
For the heart is...

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I can smile, I am happy
I’m able not to cry, I’m not weak
I can fight, I am brave
I can endure, I am strong
But am I really?
I’m still living in lies
Always escaping in truth
I’m still fighting...

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Like a bird on the wing I was homeless
Not a perch to call my own
Always searching for somewhere, something
my song was so dull and forlorn
I was taken to a nest i was promised
I would find...

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I understand that loving you was the best thing he ever had
Not only that he could melted a stone, he made me mad
Im just a bird with broken wings who wants to fly
Im just a...

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Suspended in a world sublime
                           on the other side...

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If I am but a man, then be it so. 
And I eat strength and breathe fallibility. 
But I confess, to be man is a gift by 
one name and burden by another. 
Heartbeat and...

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The Road Will Open 
The sheik taught me 
When I came to him complaining of helplessness: 
He said: Like a bird, shake the wing of the idea into the wind 
So that the imagination can...

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It snowed lightly last night.
I venture into the woods,
hear the silence reigning supreme.
Mutely a light breeze weaved its way 
amongst the moss-covered trunks,
the high branches swinging serenely,
the verdant leaves of evergreen trees.
 
Occasionally a snowflake...

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