Category Archives: Poetry

Affirmation

I believe in living. I believe in the spectrum of Beta days and Gamma people. I believe in sunshine. In windmills and waterfalls, tricycles and rocking chairs. And i believe that seeds grow into sprouts. And sprouts grow into trees. I believe in the magic of the hands. And in the wisdom of the eyes.ContinueContinue reading “Affirmation”

Poem: 65 Years Ago Today

Hmm, sixty-five years ago today,You entered this world.Twenty-nine years agoyou left far too soon.Up ’til then, I knew you my entire lifeyet, I’m still learning you more each year.This last year, I dug up painful,crushing information.Confirmed details.Connected dots.Formed a picture of a childhood that wasn’t.Saw the end of a truncated adolescence.Now I’m speculating,wondering when thoseContinueContinue reading “Poem: 65 Years Ago Today”

Poem: Diluted Melanin

Rest assured, they may have succeeded in diluting the melanin of the Countless and the Uncounted,but there is no dilutingthe Blackness of those who remain.Not only do we absorb light,and convert energy,we are the flow of oceans,seeds of the Earthflung far and wideto populate and cultivateevery continent we arrive upon.We are the wind and theContinueContinue reading “Poem: Diluted Melanin”