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Julie G
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They eat beans mostly, this old yellow pair.
Dinner is a casual affair.
Plain chipware on a plain and creaking wood,
Tin flatware.
Two who are mostly good.
Two who have lived their day,
But keep on putting on their clothes
And putting things away.
And remembering. . .
Remembering, with twinklings and twinges,
As they lean over the beans in their rented back room. . .
--Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000)
— Jul 17, 2022 12:16PM
Dinner is a casual affair.
Plain chipware on a plain and creaking wood,
Tin flatware.
Two who are mostly good.
Two who have lived their day,
But keep on putting on their clothes
And putting things away.
And remembering. . .
Remembering, with twinklings and twinges,
As they lean over the beans in their rented back room. . .
--Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000)
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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
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- )
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
And the young men
I loved
And of the gold toothed women
Mighty of arm
Who dragged us all
To church.
--Alice Walker (1944- )
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
let's destroy
then we can destroy
what we be/ come
let's build
what we become
when we dream
--Nikki Giovanni (1943- )
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
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- )
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
the rest bees shaming, bees walkin
backwards under the sun
--Rob Penny (1941-2003)
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
what the hand took
and where
the ships
are going
--Joe Johnson (1940- )
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
a black woman's bosom
bursting blues,
brooding black
--Joe Johnson (1940- )
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
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)
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
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)
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
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- )
