Friday, May 26, 2006
Soul Looks Back in Wonder
From the book Soul Looks Back in Wonder; edited and illustrated by Tom Feelings:
To You
To sit and dream, to sit and read,
To sit and learn about the world
Outside our world of here and now -
Our problem world-
To dream of vast horizons of the soul
Through dreams made whole,
Unfettered, free - help me!
All you who are dreamers too,
Help me to make
Our world anew.
I reach out my dreams to you.
Langston Hughes
Who Can Be Born Black
Who
can be born black
and not
sing
the wonder of it
the joy
the challenge
And/to come together
in a coming togetherness
vibrating with the fires of pure knowing
reeling with power
ringing with the sound above sound
above sound
to explode/in the majesty of our oneness
our comingtogether
in a comingtogetherness
Who
can be born
black
and not exult!
Mari Evans
friday poetry blogging
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2 comments:
Can I ask a possibly inappropriate, potentially offensive question? If not, feel free to delete this.
Are your chilren fully AA or are they biracial of some sort?
Don't smack me.
LOL Why would I smack you? My two little boys are both African American. Buddy Boy has some Cuban blood too.
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