You’re fresh, inimitable.
Fine,
Like they pronounce good quality.
Your reflection:
silver and gold
like loyalty.
strutting confidently with,
an assured sense and
a dash of weird
hey Cowboy
your picture is complete.
No matter how good the intentions are, things don't always work out the way we wish them to work out. That seems to be the running me...
Have you every heard this poem by Ntozake Shange’s called Somebody almost walk off wid alla ma stuff, performed by Loretta Devine? This little snippet reminded me of it... I also enjoy her performance of the poem "No Assistance"written by the same poet...
ReplyDeleteI'll check it out.
ReplyDeletehey, I just discovered- For colored girls who have thought of suicide when the rainbow is enough-
ReplyDeleteamong my books.
Now i rem why I never read it. I've never thought of suicide,
When I bought it I thought- well, yu never know, the rainbow may be enough someday. So av never read it.
The poetry is amazing.
ReplyDeleteI watched the movie, there were some disturbing parts, but the poetry is pretty good.