Strokin' - Part Three and Part Four
...STROKIN’: PART THREE
THE FULLBACK
He was twenty-eight yards and
thirty-two seconds from the end of a career
He had broken several bones, had a permanent
limp, knew the burden of performance to...
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Categories:
polyrhythmic, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Spirit and Stone and a Great Lake Nearby
...SPIRIT AND STONE &
A GREAT LAKE NEARBY
Her father was
a difficult contradiction,
annoyingly similar to a certain
type of teacher, minister or priest,
to a certain type of imam, rabbi
or occa...
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Categories:
polyrhythmic, introspection,
Form: Free verse
African Dancing
...Act out stories of ancestors and gods
Reciting poetry they gave us nods
Polyrhythmic drumming
Mamas are a humming
African dances will shake up your bods....
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Categories:
polyrhythmic, 4th grade, 5th grade,
Form: Limerick
Red X 'Trane
...Red x trane
(a black arts movement kwansaba)
by ‘bro.zayid’
Garvey greased Harlem struttin
Baraka bluuuue New Ark floats
Chicago ‘sippi blood thick
Watts fire ibeji badd
Big Eazy polyrhyth...
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Categories:
polyrhythmic, inspiration, memory,
Form: Kwansaba
Underbelly Architecture
...Concrete plane foresight
Polyrhythmic totem stalk
Waterfalls upward...
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Categories:
polyrhythmic, confusion
Form: Haiku
Clave
...Yes, that groove tells much to all
that hear.
Far "Africk", captive, yet free,
sent cross the seas such rhythms that
stirred great music for a world
that still doubts black genius.
Polyrhythmic...
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Categories:
polyrhythmic, allegory, introspection, nostalgia
Form: Free verse