Some Poems
...A Stolen Memory
A Mirthful Chorus
By Sy Roth
We surrounded him
Asked to let go.
She stared at the misshapen face,
Unshaven sandpapery skin
Eyelids a tabula rasa
Fluttery sere skin
And...
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Categories:
robeson, dream, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Native Steel
...I am the American worker
coal fired for refined thieves
on the thirty first floor.
My secrets rest
roadside beyond the guardrail
where ditched alleys
lead to rowhouses.
A list of porches
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Categories:
robeson, allusion, america, eulogy, extended
Form: Political Verse
Brotherhood Bass and Black
...His voice was loved,his colour not
Only the former him fame brought
Summa cum laude in study and sport
His origins drew him up socially short
Jim Crow laws were the sinister wedge
Which left him...
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Categories:
robeson, black african american, celebrity,
Form: Rhyme
Come Glory This All Hallow's Eve
...As I drive by the end of days I see a pumpkin and a happy witch on the doorstep of my joy,
As I pass by my four year old’s awe toward friendly ghosts down the street of nostalgia,
I am reminded of Sa...
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Categories:
robeson, happiness, holiday, mother, africa,
Form: Blank verse
Paul Leroy Robeson
...Prattlers, this voice on stage tenured its talents well
Acme of the art, the rare thespian my father spoke
Ubiquitously your destiny's duality, and swell
Lauding you, my head, and naught this spell b...
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Categories:
robeson, black african american,
Form: Acrostic
Home of the Slaves
...Land of the free
Home of the slaves
The blood, sweat and tears of my ancestors resonate
Amongst the soil where they were slain
I’m hearing their struggle
I’m feeling their pain
I can’t imagine being ...
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Categories:
robeson, allegory, black african american,
Form: Verse