Faith Slavery Poems

A Daunting Mountain Slavery Raised

An injured knee suffers in times of rain.
   Seasons of counting costs raises mountains of debt. 
Yet... faith can...

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Joy mixed with bitterness
Hope laced with scoops of mud
This journey unseen
On the way to the holy matrimony
Love is blind
So they said without holding back
Till reality...

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My dreams became galling
To my fratricidal brothers
My father's favor appalling
Birthed from different mothers

"The master of dreams is coming."
Down the cistern they tossed me
Their plan to...

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The seeds of self-destructive strife
Were sown soon after drums and fifes
Extolled success from breaking free
From Britain's aristocracy.

The Constitution's writ accedes
Peculiar Institution's needs:
Proportional House seats would...

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This temporal self
anchored by a pulsating vigor
distorting my limited perceptions

Drawing me closer
to these material pleasures
immersed in this magnetic depravity

Remedied and satiated
slumbering in disorder
submerged by this...

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Gateway town, Mississippi and Missouri river flooding confluence,
with its celebration of manifest destiny, its looming, iconic archway.
Stainless westward marker, its culture flowed southward for influence
within...

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Citizens Are

By the numbers, 
1,2,3... count them all you see. 
From here and there and everywhere, 
we are one. 

America. 
The land of plenty. 
But...

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Propaganda

We are told, 
what they want us to hear, 
by the media, 
and those behind the curtain,
with their own agendas, 
their own shows, 
in the...

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(From the musical "On Eagles' Wings." This song was written with my sister Faith Alexis.)

No, He cannot think I would deserve
To have His eye upon...

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lift every voice and sing, till heaven and earth ring with the harmonies of liberty.

let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies, let it...

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Within the frame a sepia scene
a dusty porch   a rickety chair   
the fabric of your dusky face creased
with ceaseless sunbaked woes
your...

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Loose Magic

Pee-a-boo, I see you...
Got your nose, 
and not your toes. 
Skipping rocks, 
and bubbles in the park. 

Eye contact from across the room, 
notes...

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Spaghetti

The meat, 
the cheese,
the sauce.

The smiles,
the laughs,
the wine.

The music, 
the song, 
the moment... 

The vow of forever!

Then...

You and I, 
and the garlic bread!



A. Foster, Ann...

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The Cat

It is late, 
nearly half-past nine. 
You are asleep beside me.
The clock on the wall is too loud. 
I need to buy another. 
This...

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Questions

What defines... success?
Is it how many people you know. 
Is it where you have been, 
or where you will go? 

Is it who you talk...

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