Kwanzaa & Black History Month Poems
Poetry & Short Story Book by Black Author, Writer and Poet
Nominated for a 2008 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Poetry.
Eloquence: Rhythm & Renaissance is interspersed with poems and other references that are part of Black history and culture.
From Baba Receives Permission To Speak
We are grains of spirit,
Precious as one, powerful in sum,
Resolute and esteemed we come,
To restore elder knowledge in the prodigal young,
And to listen as we hear it.
From Darkness Wings
Ultra-black warrior,
emancipating shadows,
spicy, poetic,
spiritual.
From To: Natural, My Love
Good hair is
Natural, My Love
Don’t lye to yourself
Natural, not kinky or nappy
Let Kugichagulia grace your brow
Like Ethiopia, then and now
Natural, you are becoming
Yourself
Rhythm
So beautiful
So free
From Fanta's Sky
Today she pranced on tiptoes, tracing her steps
With mud danced from Mississippi, Amazon & Nile
Loved the feeling, she giggled, smiled
From Buffalo Creek Crossing
The relentless rush of adrenaline pounds like drumbeats
deep inside the Congo. It is the sound of men chasing
buffaloes and of men chasing men. Spirits rise like majestic
mountains.
From Poetry, Say What
Poetry say, if you don’t think like me,
Don’t write like me,
Just becaaaause,
I’m Shakespeare, Hughes, Lovehall or Hurston,
Write becaaaause,
Your mind is burstin’,
Images thirstin’, for paper,
Thoughts quickly become vapors.
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Read Book Reviews & Recommendations
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