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WARNING! Some poems contain explicit language.
We do not know yet what you will hold
Until
you have come
folded into the pages of time
written in fragments
11 years 3 weeks ago
A woman that looks like me,Angela Davis I believe,Standing on her own two feet,
11 years 3 weeks ago
Her hair in neat braids, her frock a stainless white
Gazing at the wispy clouds that curl against a cerulean sky
11 years 3 weeks ago
They shuffle up the stairs
In a line like prisoners
Their heads hung low
As they walk in a single row.
11 years 3 weeks ago
The revolution was not televised.
It will not be found in a tweet or an updated status.
11 years 3 weeks ago
Integration.
What’s that?
Faubus said no, this won’t happen in my state.
Does he have that right?
11 years 3 weeks ago
After coming out in seventh grade,
I was the "it" girl to come out to
when my friend whispered to me that he
11 years 3 weeks ago
Behold your face and mine,
Follow, rhyme, rhyme
Guide us?
Rhyme the tool of the common man?
11 years 3 weeks ago
I feel it. A sense of independence.
I feel it. A sense of strength.
11 years 3 weeks ago