Movement Song
Do not remember me as a bridge nor a roof / as the maker…
T’is the season when caroling and holiday greetings are familiar refrains, sounding memories of yesterday. Beyond merry greetings, we welcome the rhythms and sensibilities of poetry to evoke passion and convey appreciation for the season, the future and the moment.…
I will sprinkle my clear tears / on seeds and transplants and bulbs / and see my garden / push up
Artist unknown, source Pinterest. By Sister Lisa Muhammad. Come follow us through every line and every verse Where there’s no need to curse or rehearse, where it doesn’t matter who’s first… To where Mother Nature and Father Time bear the…
By Rosemari Mealy Anchored across the plains-some thousands of miles away- The Eagle lost its wings. And the Homing Pigeon Detoured northward with the message that Lincoln’s Proclamation had freed the enslaved. Scorched earth embraced the feet of children, still…
Poetry
Phenomenal Woman
Now you understand / Just why my head’s not bowed / I don’t shout…
Excerpt: A Black Woman Speaks…
It is right that I a woman / black / should speak of white…
Black Statue of Liberty
I stand still above an island, fist straight in the air / Scar on…
When You Have Forgotten Sunday
And how you swore, if somebody beeped the bell, And how my heart played…
Blues
in the night / in my half hour / negro dreams / i hear…
His Excellency General Washington
Celestial choir! enthron’d in realms of light, Columbia’s scenes of glorious toils I write.
An American Sunrise
We were running out of breath, as we ran out to meet ourselves. We…
Let the Light Enter
The Dying Words of Goethe “Light! more light! the shadows deepen, And my life…