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Night is a curious child, wandering
Between earth and sky, creeping
In windows and doors, daubing
The entire neighborhood
With purple paint.
Day
Is an apologetic mother
Cloth in hand
Following after.
--Frank Marshall Davis (1905-1987)

— Jun 04, 2022 05:39PM

The Poetry of Black America: Anthology of the 20th Century

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Julie G is on page 513 of 552

the children
they move
stand about
roam freely
come rushing,
their innocence
solemn
their grace

have you seen them have you
seen them
can you feel
the Revolution
--Angelo Lewis (1950- )

— Aug 17, 2022 04:35PM

Julie G is on page 475 of 552

I shall write of the old men I knew
And the young men
I loved
And of the gold toothed women
Mighty of arm
Who dragged us all
To church.
--Alice Walker (1944- )

— Aug 17, 2022 04:29PM

Julie G is on page 450 of 552

as things be/ come
let's destroy
then we can destroy
what we be/ come
let's build
what we become
when we dream
--Nikki Giovanni (1943- )

— Aug 17, 2022 04:18PM

Julie G is on page 397 of 552

Christmas morning i
got up before the others and
ran
naked across the plank
floor into the front
room to see grandmama
sewing a new button on my last year
ragdoll.
--Carol Freeman (1941- )

— Aug 17, 2022 03:53PM

Julie G is on page 388 of 552

the real people loves one another
the rest bees shaming, bees walkin
backwards under the sun
--Rob Penny (1941-2003)

— Aug 17, 2022 03:40PM

Julie G is on page 387 of 552

the soul holds lost keys that know
what the hand took
and where
the ships
are going
--Joe Johnson (1940- )

— Aug 17, 2022 03:36PM

Julie G is on page 383 of 552

The sky
a black woman's bosom
bursting blues,
brooding black
--Joe Johnson (1940- )

— Aug 16, 2022 04:03PM

Julie G is on page 366 of 552

At one end of the line
there was God
& at the very other end
there is God.
In between
shine all the stars of all the spaces
illuminating everything
to the two tender points
that are your eyes
--Al Young (1939-2021)

— Aug 16, 2022 05:09AM

Julie G is on page 361 of 552

For Poets

Stay beautiful
but dont stay down underground too long
Dont turn into a mole
or a worm
or a root
or a stone

Come on out into the sunlight
Breathe in trees
Knock out mountains
Commune with snakes
& be the very hero of birds

Don't forget to poke your head up
& blink
Think
Walk all around
Swim upstream

Don't forget to fly
--Al Young (1939-2021)

— Aug 15, 2022 05:47AM

Julie G is on page 298 of 552

Vietnam #4

a cat said
on the corner
the other day
dig man
how come so many
of us
niggers
are dying over there
in that white
man's war
they say more of us
are dying
than them peckerwoods
& it just don't make sense
unless it's true
that the honkies
are trying to kill us out
with the same stone
they killing them other cats
with
you know, he said
two birds with one stone
--Clarence Major (1936- )

— Aug 14, 2022 04:07PM