Like a thief she steals kisses From his heart she takes love Entraps them in golden cages Feeds them her lifes blood In her arms he weakens swiftly Thinks its he who holds the key She smiles secretly at the joke She holds within her hands Ensconced within his death throws He wakens to his […]
God gave me eyes so I could see, God gave me legs so I could walk, God gave me hands so I could feel, God gave me ears so I could hear, God gave me a nose so I could smell, God gave me a heart so I could love, God gave me a brain […]
I have become someone who worries about nothing I try my damnedest to cover the overhead and bills the daily annoyances that pelt me like stones tossed by children from the streamside my little compadre assures me I’ve tried that my success or failure should not disturb my being I just don’t get bothered anymore […]
I have become someone who worries about nothing I try my damnedest to cover the overhead and bills the daily annoyances that pelt me like stones tossed by children from the streamside my little compadre assures me I’ve tried that my success or failure should not disturb my being I just don’t get bothered anymore […]
Droning a drowsy syncopated tune, Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon, I heard a Negro play. Down on Lenox Avenue the other night By the pale dull pallor of an old gas light He did a lazy sway . . . He did a lazy sway . . . To the tune o’ […]
Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear. I have as much right As the other fellow has To stand On my two feet And own the land. I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom […]
Children, I come back today To tell you a story of the long dark way That I had to climb, that I had to know In order that the race might live and grow. Look at my face — dark as the night — Yet shining like the sun with love’s true light. I am […]
In England once there lived a big And wonderfully clever pig. To everybody it was plain That Piggy had a massive brain. He worked out sums inside his head, There was no book he hadn’t read. He knew what made an airplane fly, He knew how engines worked and why. He knew all this, but […]
"Hope" is the thing with feathers— That perches in the soul— And sings the tune without the words— And never stops—at all— And sweetest—in the Gale—is heard— And sore must be the storm— That could abash the little Bird That kept so many warm— I’ve heard it in the chillest land— And on the strangest […]
Making God’s messengers appear ordinary My beloved lady surpassed the beauty of angels Like golden rays through snow-white clouds Her beauty pierced through my heart My thoughts had seized to be mine And my dreams became my greatest treasure For in there my beautiful saviour awaited me And her face pointed the path to heaven […]
