Nature Slavery Poems

Do you think your colors matter?
My beautiful shades do not matter
Because my natural color is human
And I am a being created in the image
Of the...

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POEM: 
Bragging about their golden handcuffs
contemporary serfs wearing white collared buttoned shirts
modishly masquerade as caged chickens
by sticking flowery feathers up their derrieres
emasculated last man's search...

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Being in the mind of a savage.

All I know is how to act ferociously.
Manipulating the minds of the weak, fearful, and the victims.
Beating them into...

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it is as though
they saw my beauty,
full and radiant
lasted only in the 
rich soil i was born in.

so they picked me and
stomped the roots dry.
one...

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We are complexions of being,
gradations of actualization.
Our nature coming to be or passing away, 
Aristotle wrote. 

Mere complexions of being,
gradations of ontology.
In every American thing...

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The tall pillarized building
Cold, concrete, dictating
Attacked the sky
Making it packed, broken, hurt, scarred
Blocking those lovely clouds and rainbow
The tall pillarized building
Cold, concrete, dictating
Captured modernized hearts
Making...

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Colour Schemers

Arab Traders excavated
Europe laid the foundation
The New World framed it perfectly
The rest of the races roofed it

This …
Inordinate economic concupiscence
Shadowy sham, animated by a...

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I made the coffee,
But, really, who made who?
Am I the master of my own destiny?
Or a servant of the microbes that steer me?
Why must I...

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Humanity has taken a chainsaw to the tree of life 
every tear came as a visitor as my eyes they drank 
from the well of...

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Oh what misery!

The heart- 
an indigent and feral beast
kept in lock down
in an inner cage
for my own good

What treachery dwells
within that creature!

It's wiles, 
it's devious...

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Standing here in the mind of mine
passing through and over time
pulling out thoughts sublime:
sorrow, hate, pain, joy, love, sanity--
all the mould character of my humanity;

On...

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I'm musing with Jill Lepore,
historian (Harvard feminist, but definitely within brackets of general interest),
through eight hundred pages of These Truths
telling an other U.S. herstory.

She starkly...

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INFERNO

As I watched from far away,
Under the sun sending down  its rays,
Not willing to stare any longer,
And about to find my way out,
I noticed...

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White Faces
and We the People
go hand in hand.
White hands
 shake
white hands
without ever washing
their hands.
Handcuffs,
In God we trust
Affirmations
rendered on 
God's word
promotes equality
Yet,
same crime
different times
feels like
slavery after...

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Dear Southern Gals

Savannah - oh honey
You beautiful Belle
Your locks long and loose
And silver as well
Muted mementos
Of suffering of pain
Of tears you have wept
Long rivers of...

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