Go ahead and make me sad It’s okay if it makes you happy Rip my heart out and stomp on it It’s okay if it makes you happy Pour salt inside these wounds I’ll lick them clean if it makes you happy Corrode my heart like an ancient ruin I’ll live there forever if it […]
Dear Happiness, You are the hope in the midst of our souls. You are the faith that comes with high goals. You are the meaning of ecstatic bliss. You are the feeling of a loving mother’s kiss. You are the sensation of everlasting love. You are an angel sent down from above. You are the […]
I find, in being Black, a thing of “Beauty”; like a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness … a native land in neither time nor place … a native land in every Black face! Be loyal to yourselves; your skin; your hair; your lips; your speech; your laughing kinds are Black kingdoms, vast […]
Hair…… long sleek silky hair Floppy dark raven hair Vibrant hues of auburn hair Mops of golden baby hair Softly shaven ‘bald-head’ hair Tennis ball-like to the touch All different types of hair I like so much What is it with hair? That makes you double-back and just stare? But most of all the one […]
Foggy mist, misty fog Marvellous manifestation Of magnificent nature! Weary winter Heralds The splenderous spring! The fog Strong enough to blind Quite weak to stand The stare of raising Sun! The fog in life, problems in life Strong enough to blind Cannot stand The stare of sparkling mind! Fog deprives Physical vision Foggy mind denies […]
The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on. by Carl Sandburg
A flower grew out of the ground A tiny flower from the dirt A tiny living soul from underground A baby crawling from the dirt A little innocence of wild color A tiny spark of hope A tiny pleasure free of charge A flower that i called my own A little baby ran towards it […]
Once in a golden hour I cast to earth a seed. Up there came a flower, The people said, a weed. To and fro they went Thro’ my garden bower, And muttering discontent Cursed me and my flower. Then it grew so tall It wore a crown of light, But thieves from o’er the wall […]
Angeline had arrived in Nova Scotia Today By boat And the boat that She traveled in from Toronto Was a fishing boat by Aldo Kraas
There is something about you, something in your soul something that seems to surround your fishing pole…. You moved to the coast, now that’s no lie And we had a hard time with that little goodbye But no need for heartache, no need to console You had your boat and your fishing pole. You know […]
