Just because you are young Doesn’t mean much to some But because you are black It means nothing! Somebody killed another child!
I am thankful! God gave me another chance To live, to love To learn, to be free To believe in a God I serve,
for in memory of Gwendolyn Brooks You inspire me And touch my very soul Setting my heart and mind free Making poetry valued like gold.
To Nikki Giovanni Poetry and rhyme And reason At any season You’re the mother of words
The March winds blow As we take a breath From winter’s spell And I was told Like a lion it roars
I am a man– No matter the color No matter the race No matter the time or place I AM A MAN!
to Tice, Sherry, Pat, Simone, Ma… Girls to the end No matter what No matter how, We are sisters to the very end
In memory of Rosa L. Parks Freedom. You carried that banner For us all And for all of us you stood
a social commentary Among the vast of the sea and land Where a nation is born, Where a nation arises from the ash… Upon other large shoulders.
Brother, Lover, Poet, Freelance writer, Son,
Every body wants a revolution! Something to fight for Something to say I belong to some… A struggle of what’s right A fight for what’s wrong
in memory of the children of South… Freedom! Lifted out of the ashes and into a… A river of joy A river of peace.
A SOCIAL COMMENTARY BLACK IS MY SKIN TAR BABY... SAMBO NEGRO SKIN DARK AS NIGHT
O Spirit within me Spirit of the poetry that’s free. Abide in me to write to the people… From my soul of what I truly came… O Spirit in my soul
Gloomy skies with dark clouds abov… Where rain was every where And I am here lying in bed Sleeping, slumbering into a dream Unknown journeys of twist and turn…
