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Posted on June 14, 2020 Leave a Comment
American Sonnet (10) after Lowell our mothers wrung hell and hardtack from row and boll. fenced others’ gardens with bones of lovers. embarking from Africa in chains reluctant pilgrims stolen by Jehovah’s light planted here the bitter seed of blight […]
Posted on June 12, 2020 Leave a Comment
Joseph Solomon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0YyB2_TV5k Watch and share Joseph Solomon’s perfect poem
Posted on June 11, 2020 Leave a Comment
July 4, 1974 Washington, D.C. At least it helps me to think about my son a Leo/born to us (Aries and Cancer) some sixteen years ago in St. John’s Hospital next to the Long Island Railroad tracks Atlantic Avenue/Brooklyn New York at dawn which facts do not really prepare you (do […]
Posted on June 9, 2020 Leave a Comment
photograph my grandsons spinning in their joy universe keep them turning turning black blurs against the window of the world for they are beautiful and there is trouble coming round and round and round Lucille Clifton
Posted on June 7, 2020 Leave a Comment
I pick the first picture there, train tracks in the mud I see rotten trees I see fog on the ground Oh, universe, I see a reflection in the trees and it changes by light and dark. How does it do that? it is getting darker I notice the reflection It has […]
Posted on June 6, 2020 Leave a Comment
The poet and the people get on generally very badly, and yet they need each other. The poet knows it sooner than the people do. The people usually know it after the poet is dead; but that’s all right. The point is to get your work done, and your work is to change the world.― James […]
Posted on June 5, 2020 Leave a Comment
The Walk Walk. Walk your fears away and walk. Walk down the right sidewalk. Walk your anger and rage away. Express your emotions and walk. Once you’re done, walk again. Walk until you are ready to run. Then jump and fly. *L. Scott, Highgate Heights, Grade 5
Posted on June 4, 2020 Leave a Comment
Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word “love” here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace – not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the […]
Posted on June 3, 2020 Leave a Comment
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.― James Baldwin
Posted on May 31, 2020 Leave a Comment
Doesn’t Matter Where Small town or Big City It doesn’t matter where you are– gun violence, rape, and robbery– this is the world I live in, where racism isn’t getting better, but worse. People die, mothers cry. What has this world become? I pray, I pray, every night I pray, wishing everything could be okay. […]
Sherry Robbins 