That Girl At the Party
...You’re that girl at the party
The one who I see coming
Who’s going to want to talk about
Slavery or banjo or climate change
I’ve been waiting hoping you’d be here
It’s been a nice time drin...
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Categories:
minstrelsy, angel, beauty, black african
Form: Free verse
To Pete Seeger - Circa Shortly Before His Death - Verse One
...this anonymous weaver spins his written tapestry
to acknowledge your ninetieth year
no matter this author unknown who deftly weaves
(for pete sakes) with english poetry
which rhyming threads fire...
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Categories:
minstrelsy, farewell, grief, inspirational, journey,
Form: Elegy
Jazz Baby
...In Africa you were born
In deep serenity
To the sounds of mighty drums
And rhythm’s authenticity.
Stole you from your righteous land
Cut it up like a birthday cake
Gave it back to Anglo han...
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Categories:
minstrelsy, beautiful, black african american,
Form: Personification
You Are Not Alone
...You are not alone
You found me
love me
with the words
with minstrelsy
You gave me breath
Fresher than
The morn’s dew
with the words
with minstrelsy
your simple manner
touched my feeling
stroked my...
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Categories:
minstrelsy, friendship,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Mimicry Is Murder
...Mirror melted, and I enclosed in solid space of ice
Intersperse images, direlict of other's maiming vice.
Mimicry is not a benign deceit as you would think
Incontestable illusions brought my race to ...
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Categories:
minstrelsy, political,
Form: Acrostic
Troubadour-Tribute
...I love the songs of working people played
In cabins and at dances, and along
Highways where the vagabonds wander by,
Unchanged since days of early English song.
The English, Celtic minstrelsy c...
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Categories:
minstrelsy, musicpeople, love, people,
Form: Sonnet
Spring
...Sweet now the songs of day shall come
Like honey melted to be free
Of birds delicious tongue
Sweet now the sunflower's golden eye
Eastward turns to see
What choirs from orion hum
This sweet ble...
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Categories:
minstrelsy, lifespring, spring, time,
Form: Free verse
Heaven
...Within the dreaming wells of consciousness,
Lie hid the mighty Truths of unknown God.
Behind the veils,material and dense,
Dwell many Holy Wonders
of great Power, Beauty, Wisdom, Love:
Divi...
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Categories:
minstrelsy, inspirational, mystery, philosophy, visionary,
Form: I do not know?