Remembering Four Centuries of Africans In America
...Fields where the bondman’s toil
No more shall trench the soil,
Seem now to bask in a serener day;
The meadow-birds sing sweeter, and the airs
Of heaven with more caressing softness play,
Welcom...
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Categories:
standfast, anniversary, celebration, history, racism,
Form: Rhyme
Restless Nights, Restless Pen
...lichen heart,
of mossy bones,
kerosene humors in burning veins;
this anxiety in the night;
like walking wounded,
needle toe,
jumping at the squeal;
ink well vertigo,
dark in the blacklight...
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Categories:
standfast, confusion,
Form: Free verse
Waves
...I standfast, ready on the shoreline.
Waves roll in, crashing at my feet.
They invite me softly, they call my name.
I jump right in, they take me home....
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Categories:
standfast, sea,
Form: Verse
Sliderule
...Be drift the moon across cloudless sky
to shine it's light upon the cloudy I
beneath her gaze my darkened days
where time has slowed and doesn't quickly fly
And crowded are the days in lonely ...
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Categories:
standfast, angst, care, death, life,
Form: Verse
My Flower!
...~@~ ~@~ ~@~ ~@~ ~@~ ~@~ ~@~ ~@~ ~@~ ~@~ ~@~
Love all the elements exposed to.. growing up free,
gentle winds, warm rays, light snow.. all nurture me..
Bowing down head, believe.. I love soft...
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Categories:
standfast, hope, imagination, passion,
Form: Free verse