Long Spirituals Poems

Within the frame a sepia scene
a dusty porch   a rickety chair   
the fabric of your dusky face creased
with ceaseless sunbaked woes
your old pair of getaway feet gives 
a different walk of...

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Hey bruh, 
haven’t you heard,
ain’t you read the news?
The White House is gonna eradicate 
the fear infested inner city blues
That Trump fella says,
he’s got his poison pen ready to use
He says black folks got nothing...

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I could be wrong,
we might become righter
with left bipolarity
now left with right tighter
co-arising dipolar.

A distinction more tangible
as bipolar left science didacticals
against Right sacred muse
teasing twittering testicles
while comparing
and contrasting
mutual deplorables

Both Andedness, bi-causal effects
YangLeft natural
with YinRight spirituals,
patriarchal/matriarchal...

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Of all the kooky Coo-Coo's in the nest, Charlene by far was my favorite. Poor Charlene had virtually lost her mind after the sudden tragic death of her son, and because of that, and in...

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WHY I LOVE NEGRO  SPIRITUALS   

I know why we sang those songs;
Why I LOVE NEGRO Spirituals-
I have a spiritual 
connection to
those songs we sang.
We sang out messages to the universe,
and to each...

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Revelations 2: 17 To Him who over comes

He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.
I will give him some of the hidden manna. I will also give him...

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Dear Dr. King,

I read of your struggle(s) over 50 years ago, & my heart brakes for how your life was taken prematurely on that day

I am a young black male, living in the year 2020

We...

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Spiritualism,
What do you know about it?
Worshipping or prayering a God,
Or willing to share, 
A power for touching to realise only,
But nothing to clarify,
The power,
That is touching dreams,
Is it actual power of God?
Or a Devil control,
Is...

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There are no words now                              ...

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Let My People Go


Ain’t I a woman?
Ain’t I a girl? 
Ain’t I one to bleed in underwear?
Ain’t I one to wear brazier 
And raise them high into the air?
Ain’t I one to carry life 
And...

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Rituals
are sacred
when they reconnect
what LeftBrain dominant
straight white privileged man
has transcendently and monotheistically 
disconnected secular nature
from sacred polytheistic spirits

Earthly nature
divorced from Heavenly spirit,
power
from light,
empowerment
from enlightenment,
autonomous theological identity
from interdependent ecological experience,
personal health
from transcendent joy

Like segregating
sexual health rituals
from...

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I’M GONNA TELL THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD BOUT JESUS


I’m gonna tell the whole wide world, bout Jesus, Jesus
Gonna tell them for their own good, yes I AM
I’m gonna tell the whole wide world, bout Jesus,...

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Sceptical of Divine


Oh! Almighty where did you rise upon
How your souls are wandering
Through out the world in invisible movement
How they trust you for their mistakes
How you are incarnating in different ways
How did you made the...

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The songs referenced in this poem are listed in the Library of Congress and classified as Negro Spirituals. This poem is not racial. Rather, it is a heartfelt tribute to those who helped shape the...

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My ancestors walking in the night
using oil lights and moonlight for guides
while being instructed to Wade in the Water
to camouflage their scents like disguise

The Sweet Chariot awaited 
so they could ride away
Harriet was a soldier
and...

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A World without God is like a kick in the mouth
A World without God is like having no hope, but doubts
A World without God is like a place of sin
A World without God is like...

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From East to west enslaved in chains
To work the fields, make tracks for trains
They sang their song antiphonally
To dull their day, hide misery
Those blues notes hit in wailing tone
And words about the heavenly home

Their doleful...

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I am dipped in burnt sage
smudged with black skin
Choctaw infused in my DNA
Creole seasoning the roux 
in my bloodline
I slow simmer
for I am daughter of
strong warrior
Too powerful to
give up
cause surrender is
an unfamiliar name
to my lineage
My...

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She's a part of my spirituality.  
A gift of sunshine when darkness surrounds. 
A fire starter.  It only takes a spark for her to ignite me. 
She's the staircase in my basement. ...

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Spiritualist -Signs of Souls


Fragmenting eyes of sorrow of baneful tears that demons burrow
Stealing Cupids arrow and the elusive songs of the morning sparrow
Encroaching black mass revels jubilantly to break the mirror's glass
Within the barbarous brass...

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Over 200 years of oppression
Now days are we paying for our transgressions
Doing slavery we used our bravery
Breaking the chains doing the inhumane suffering and pain
While being disrespected by being called ambiguous names
Tubman took us through...

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IF I COULD JUST HOLD ON YOU CAN HOLD ON JUST A LITTLE WHILE LONGER—JESUS GONNA FIX IT

If I could just hold on, you can hold on a little while longer
If I could just hold...

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In the unforgiving August heat
of a hot Alabama noonday
They sit in secluded shade,
resting in high-back, woven bamboo chairs
on a mahogany carved veranda
Their bodies face outward to the vast white fields,
watching the black raisins move under...

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MY DEVINE DESTINY					3.21.01



I know exactly where my destiny lies, it was right in front of me
One day beaming from the Heavenly skies
Beautiful white clouds surrounding two golden arrays of light,
Extending from the Heavens
Oh what an...

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Today's Sounds

Music rolls off the banjo, bluegrass
Active cheery sound, gland it’s around,
Folk music in little town passed down by word of mouth;
Family remembers and other people too, and songs abound.

Symphony sounds dynamic notes through the...

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