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Category Archives: Poetry
here
Advertisements i was here this morning right before the sun rose warm in the covers not awake dream thinking knowing without knowing moving like water or wind naturally powerful unafraid soaring i was here this morning brave as a new … Continue reading
Thirty Poems in Thirty Days National Poetry Month 2015 ucc
Advertisements I accepted the 30/30 challenge offered by a group of fellow poets. This is the result. Thirty poems written in 30 days. Poem#30 (4/30/2015) North American African Poet i am a poet language and ideas are my meat & … Continue reading
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Tagged 30/30 Challenge, ayodele wordslanger nzinga, National Poetry Month, poems, poets
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gentrified
Advertisements like a Palestinian boy with just a pile of rock i am helpless they are the invaders they have invaded grammie’s garden cutting down the bell tree planting sustainable drought resistant grasses that don’t take me home like the … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry
Tagged discontinuity, displacement, gentrification, home, identity, Memory
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grammie’s song
Advertisements her song so soft like the smell of jasmine on summer wind no words a simple hum like soft hands on your shoulder when you are tired like encouragement when the bruises show a gentle whisper saying you can … Continue reading
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ghost words
Advertisements when a language dies there is no funeral the grief has no words silent as a dead forest memories unclaimed like loss baggage carrying home gone now with the words to describe the new sunrise the look in a … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged culture, identity, language, Memory, worldview
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linqua
Advertisements separated from the words left only with the experience outside words no reason outside language the imperatives that bind me are impenetrable separating me from knowing how to heal myself I suffer without words to describe the pain that … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged identity, language, linquicide, loss of culture, Memory, trauma
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stillborn spring
Advertisements It should rain in the winter one expects the wind trees get naked in anticipation it should rain in the winter children should grow up you should shudder at your pain reflected in the mirror or your brothers eyes … Continue reading
lifted measure one
Advertisements sometimes it gets hard to lift something must be shifted can’t go on this way even if youre gifted can’t drift in the game twisted i insist i get a grip i know the story flip the script stealing … Continue reading
Posted in Black Arts, Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged ayodele wordslanger nzinga, black poems, liberation art, poems
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Rendition
Advertisements i grew in the shadow of the tales of her the shining mistress with open arms who crowned the good on streets of gold with a chicken in every pot a job for every man & no child left … Continue reading
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Tagged American violence, awareness, ayodele wordslanger nzinga, government, policing, politics, systemic violence, torture, war and peace
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spider woman and twin war Godz
Advertisements riding with spider woman and twin war Godz born into a state of war divined to be she who remembers shield carrier spear chucker hard to duck her up right in storm moving forward like water persistently … Continue reading
