Kin is a poem composed by Maya Angelou. Kin FOR BAILEY We were entwined in red rings Of blood and loneliness before The first snows fell Before muddy rivers seeded clouds Above a virgin forest, and Men ran naked, blue and black Skinned into the warm embraces Of Sheba, Eve and Lilith. I was your …
The Mothering Blackness is a poem composed by Maya Angelou. The Mothering Blackness She came home running back to the mothering blackness deep in the smothering blackness white tears icicle gold plains of her face She came home running.She came down creeping here to the black arms waiting now to the warm heart waiting rime …
These Yet To Be United States is a poem composed by Maya Angelou. These Yet To Be United States Tremors of your network cause kings to disappear. Your open mouth in anger makes nations bow in fear. Your bombs can change the seasons, obliterate the spring. What more do you long for ? Why are …
Savior is a poem composed by Maya Angelou. Savior Petulant priests, greedy centurions, and one million incensed gestures stand between your love and me. Your agape sacrifice is reduced to colored glass, vapid penance, and the tedium of ritual. Your footprints yet mark the crest of billowing seas but your joy fades upon the tablets …
Preacher, Don’t Send Me is a poem composed by Maya Angelou. Preacher, Don’t Send Me Preacher, don’t send me when I die to some big ghetto in the sky where rats eat cats of the leopard type and Sunday brunch is grits and tripe. I’ve known those rats I’ve seen them kill and grits I’ve …
Our Grandmothers is a poem composed by Maya Angelou. Our Grandmothers She lay, skin down in the moist dirt, the canebrake rustling with the whispers of leaves, and loud longing of hounds and the ransack of hunters crackling the near branches.She muttered, lifting her head a nod toward freedom, I shall not, I shall not …
The Black Family Pledge is a poem composed by Maya Angelou. The Black Family Pledge BECAUSE we have forgotten our ancestors, our children no longer give us honor.BECAUSE we have lost the path our ancestors cleared kneeling in perilous undergrowth, our children cannot find their way.BECAUSE we have banished the God of our ancestors, our …
Recovery is a poem composed by Maya Angelou. Recovery A Last love, proper in conclusion, should snip the wings forbidding further flight. But I, now, reft of that confusion, am lifted up and speeding toward the light.
Ain’t That Bad? is a poem composed by Maya Angelou. Ain’t That Bad? Dancin’ the funky chicken Eatin’ ribs and tips Diggin’ all the latest sounds And drinkin’ gin in sips.Puttin’ down that do-rag Tighten’ up my ‘fro Wrappin’ up in Blackness Don’t I shine and glow?Hearin’ Stevie Wonder Cookin’ beans and rice Goin’ to …
Son To Mother is a poem composed by Maya Angelou. Son To Mother I start no wars, raining poison on cathedrals, melting Stars of David into golden faucets to be lighted by lamps shaded by human skin. I set no store on the strange lands, send no missionaries beyond my borders, to plunder secrets and …
