Black Poetry : ARTISTIC PURPOSE

afrostotle

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Jun 17, 2003
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Spokane, Washington
Occupation
My occupation is whatever I do that requires focus
For all those, whose mind, body,
and soul, were preyed upon… trapped, kidnapped
and stacked in the hole,
taken through the passage under the captain’s
black-hearted control.

For those spirits that watched cried, and
Wailed…..with cruelty, forced to watch as
their men women and children
were bound, paraded around and
sold on the block for retail……….
So that the lessons of your struggles may be heard……….With poetic word….
guided by your light and armed with insight…..I take to task and write

For those who endured struggle, pain, and
strife, in the incinerating sun,
persuaded by the overseer’s whip and gun
to toil the soil for the
“fabric of Jim Crows life”

For those who were bamboozled
by Lincoln’s plot……..Of “so-called emancipation”
While the next several generations, living in the “so-called”
hospitable part of the nation were forced to
remain and sharecrop………
So that the lessons of your struggles may be heard………With poetic word….
guided by your light and armed with insight….I take to task and write

For those who watched on a nightly basis
their hopes and dreams burned by white
hooded racists….. billyclubs broke noses……then came
Nazi-sheppards and hoses..... trying to stomp out our hope
Leaving Lady-Day to sing about fruit with
blood at the root……..attached to tree by rope

For those who questioned the position
of false and racist judicial decisions
the murders of Malcolm, Martin, Medger
Brothers, Jackson, Till and countless others…….
Fighting and uplifting, the masses, the front-line
Sistas and Brothas…….

So that the lessons of your struggles may be heard…….With poetic word….
Guided by your light and armed with insight……I take to task and…….I ……..Write!!!
 

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