Black Poetry : Scenes Of A Summer South

Jyntlbreez

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Vacation time coming!! And though I'm not headed south this year, I can never seem to plan my vacation, without thinking about those summers south.


I can still hear the sound
Of Mr. Ole Man Joe's ****-a-crowing
Ritually,
Each cry tolling
Announcing the start of a new day
Never had no need for a wind-up clock..
You could always count on
Mr. Ole Man Joe's ****,

Or even,
The crickets song at night...
Music to my ears, lullin me...off to such a
Sweet slumber
Always had a hard time decidin, which of the two
I'd like most
Guess they're bout the same, cuz
These thangs I still remember

Sittin on the porch with Big Mama, snappin peas N
Just talkin..Listnin, intently,
For she always had some wisdom to tell
And if she wadn't servin up some brain power
She sho would dish you up a good meal...
I can hear her sayin...
"Girl, yah ain't bout big as a minute"..or,
You ain't seen a fork ana knife in a loooong time, Hee-Hee"
Yeah, Big mama gonna make sho you got somethin stickin to
Dem ribs...
We'd jus sit-N-Rock-N talk Fo hours...

'Ventually, The neighbors would saunter over,
Or stand from their porch and wave, "HEY"...
Always offerin to pick somethin up for ya at the
Food Lion or Piggly-Wiggly...Wadn't nuthin for them to ask..
Since, they was, "Jus goin down the way"

Lil girls skippin rope, red dirt dancin all around...
Pigtails floppin to the beat of double-dutch...
Barkin words of Bubba's hound..

Daddy tendin the barbeque, Grinnin and mighty proud of
His spicey chilie for the hot dogs..Tellin ev'ry one..
"Now this here chili, will burn yah up!!, I call it, the
Soldier Boy...When yah eat some ah this, Yu gonna have to
Respect it...UM HMM, salute this here Mickey-Bickey....
Soldier Boy..that's what I call it...Hee-Hee"...

And when the sun decides to take a break from shinin..
A dry heat remains...
The motors of the fans blaring,
From every direction in the room
Falls into harmony with the cricket's song.....
Lulling me, Into a Sweet Summer South Slumber.......
 

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