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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: BARAKA, AMIRI Matches Found: 344 Baraka, Amiri Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi 344 poems available by this author 1929: Y YOU ASK First Line: In 'the masque of the red death' 1998 COLLAGE EULOGY FOR JAMES BYRD, JR. First Line: Inside out %flag is they north Last Line: Er niggers. Death mailing hate %666 1999 COLLAGE EULOGY FOR AMADOU DIALLO First Line: My memory %is you memory Last Line: They try to kill us %this way 20TH-CENTURY FOX First Line: Dynamite black girl 3RD WORLD BLUES First Line: Walk it slow A CONTRACT. (FOR THE DESTRUCTION AND REBUILDING OF PATERSON) Poem Text Recitation First Line: Flesh, and cars, tar, dug holes beneath stone Subject(s): African Americans; Racism; Negroes; American Blacks; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry A NEW REALITY IS BETTER THAN A NEW MOVIE! Poem Text First Line: How will it go, crumbling earthquake, towering inferno, juggernaut, volcano, smashup Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks A POEM FOR BLACK HEARTS First Line: For malcolm's eyes, when they broke Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism; Malcolm X (malcolm Little) (1925-1965); Negroes; American Blacks A POEM FOR SPECULATIVE HIPSTERS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: He had got, finally A POEM SOME PEOPLE WILL HAVE TO UNDERSTAND First Line: Dull unwashed windows of eyes Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism; Men; Negroes; American Blacks AFRICA AFRICA AFRICA AFRIKAN REVOLUTION First Line: Afrikan people all over the world %suffering from white domination Last Line: Work & study %struggle & victory Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism AFRO AMERICAN TALKING DRUM First Line: If you got real spooky Last Line: It was his %music %that he %despised AFRO-AMERICAN LYRIC First Line: Star-ar-t wi-th AGAINST BOURGEOIS ART First Line: War on the horizon. A ship with bloody sail. Andy young slips Last Line: Now meditate %on that! AGONY. AS NOW First Line: I am inside someone %who hates me Last Line: Inside it. And that thing %screams Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Identity; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations ALL IN THE STREET First Line: Can you imagine something other ALL REACTION IS DOOMED!!! First Line: Why is it they want revolution ALLIFESTO! First Line: As swingingest %is %peace %& %wisdom Last Line: Blue has %always %been %our %favorite %color! ALWAYS KNOW First Line: If the animals %will not leave Last Line: He might not/even %be talkin %to you AM/TRAK First Line: Trane / trane, history love scream on Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music; Coltrane, John (1926-1967); Davis, Miles (1926-1991); Jazz; Music & Musicians AM/TRAK First Line: Trane %trane, history love scream on Last Line: As rightly %burning Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Coltrane, John (1926-1967); Davis, Miles (1926-1991); Jazz; Music And Musicians AMERICAN OPPRESS STORY! First Line: Remember howdy doody? %well, he grew up & became jimmy carter Subject(s): Carter, Jimmy (b. 1924) AMERICANA First Line: They hate the idea Last Line: By claiming only 5 senses %& sex AN AGONY. AS NOW Poem Text First Line: I am inside someone / who hates me Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Identity; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations AN AMERICAN OPPRESS STORY! First Line: Remember howdy doody? / well, he grew up & became jimmy carter Subject(s): Carter, Jimmy (b. 1924) ANCIENT MUSIC First Line: The main thing %to be against %is death Last Line: Everything else %is a %chump ANSWERS IN PROGRESS First Line: Can you die in airraid jiggle Last Line: That's the way the fifth day ended. Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians ART AGAINST ART NOT First Line: Art not is devil death Last Line: In massive fire balls of explosion %sun ra arrives AS A POSSIBLE LOVER First Line: Practices %silence, the way of wind Last Line: Never really %had ASK ME WHAT I AM First Line: The rhythm of beings is the reason for AT THE NATIONAL BLACK ASSEMBLY First Line: Eek %a nigger communist,' the lady democrat BABYLON REVISITED Poem Text First Line: The gaunt thing / with no organs Subject(s): Hate BABYLON REVISITED First Line: The gaunt thing %with no organs Last Line: While your flesh burns %and your eyes peel to red mud Subject(s): Hate BAD NEWS FOR YOUR HIGHNESS (SONG TO DEPOSED KINGS) First Line: Slobber pave feet. Blow sun BAD PEOPLE First Line: We want to be happy Last Line: Such ignorance %justifiably %creates BALBOA, THE ENTERTAINER Poem Text First Line: It cannot come BALBOA, THE ENTERTAINER First Line: It cannot come Last Line: Slip %from my arm BALLAD OF THE MORNING STREETS First Line: The magic of the day is the morning Last Line: And dog your blazing BEAUTIFUL BLACK WOMEN First Line: Beautiful black women, fail, they act. Stop them, raining Subject(s): African Americans - Women BEAUTIFUL BLACK WOMEN First Line: Beautiful black women, fail, they act. Stop them, raining Last Line: Will you let me help you, daughter, wife-lover, will you Subject(s): African Americans - Women BIOGRAPHY First Line: Hangs %whipped BLACK ART Poem Text First Line: Poems are bullshit unless they are Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism; Negroes; American Blacks BLACK ART First Line: Poems are bullshit unless they are Last Line: And let all black people speak this poem %silently %or loud Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism BLACK BOURGEOISIE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Has a gold tooth, sits long hours Last Line: Him black self Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks BLACK BOURGEOISIE First Line: Has a gold tooth, sits long hours Last Line: Hates, instead, him self %him black self Subject(s): African Americans BLACK DADA NIHILISMUS First Line: Against what light / is false what breath Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks BLACK DADA NIHILISMUS First Line: Against what light %is false what breath Last Line: Against his lost white children %black dada nihilismus Subject(s): African Americans BLACK LITANY First Line: You can't be the devil Subject(s): Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918) BLACK LITANY First Line: You can't be the devil Last Line: So this is what %hell is Subject(s): Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918) BLACK MAN IS MAKING NEW GODS First Line: Atheist jews double crossers stole our secrets crossed Last Line: In a cold box Subject(s): African Americans; Racism BLACK PEOPLE! First Line: What about that bad short you saw last week Last Line: In your face and curse you by pitying your tomish ways BLACK PEOPLE: THIS IS OUR DESTINY First Line: The road runs straight with no turning, the circle Last Line: The primitives the first men who evolve again to civilize the %world BLACK RECONSTRUCTION First Line: What the doctor explained Last Line: & the glory of %his coming BLUDOO BABY WANT MONEY AND ALLIGATOR GOT IT TO GIVE First Line: Say day lay day may fay come some bum'll BLUE WHITIE First Line: Strange corpses the ones who BOOGALOO SONNET(S) First Line: In the stree was betty r, with 5 kidz BRIDGE First Line: I have forgotten the head Last Line: (when you have let the song run out) will be sliding through %unmentionable black Subject(s): African Americans BRITANNCIA SAYS THERE IS NO EXPLANATION OR USE FOR LAUGHTER First Line: Burn baby %father %mama %god Last Line: For love %is %fuck BROTHER OKOT First Line: Our people say %death lives Last Line: Where even the sun dies BROZE BUCKAROO First Line: Soft night come back BUDDHA ASKED MONK First Line: If you were always right Last Line: Monk said, blue and invisible BUMI First Line: I forgotten who Last Line: I can sing a little %bit but that still %don't say I can heal %or bring back %the dead BUNNIES First Line: Bangs and kills in an old street CAREERS First Line: What is the life CENSUS First Line: Black people black people black people black people black CHANGES CHANGING First Line: Suggests is internal CHILD EVOLVE First Line: Bobby, stanley, jb, jr., larry, ronny, linda, carol, rodney CHILD OF THE THIRTIES First Line: Red rover CHINATOWN First Line: Chiang kai-shek %ends up in china town CITATION First Line: Now instead of amos & %andy 'integration' Last Line: From the outside CITIZEN CAIN First Line: In the great northwest, always, my grandfather warned me Last Line: Roi, baby, you blew the whole thing Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism CITY OF NEW ARK: WAVE BEATS First Line: Arkestra see its! %all night the city breathes Last Line: & those %who dug %the signifying' %hollered %'man'! CIVIL RIGHTS POEM First Line: Roywilkins is an eternal faggot CLASS STRUGGLE First Line: Years ago we both swore oaths, with another CLAY First Line: Killed %by a white woman Last Line: What he is %today Subject(s): African Americans COLD TERM First Line: All the things. The objects Last Line: Why are the beautiful sick and divided like myself? COLD TERM II First Line: We make crazy lullabies COME SEE ABOUT ME First Line: Oallah %all deity, jinn, spirit creation CONFIRMATION First Line: The blood in me, assumes a beautiful shape, it assumes CONTRACT (FOR THE DESTRUCTION & REBUILDING OF PATTERSON) First Line: Flesh, and cars, tar, dug holes beneath stone Last Line: Else they cannot eat COPS First Line: Flyolfloyd, I know from barringer Last Line: While the bullet comes. Shit CROW JANE: CROW JANE IN HIGH SOCIETY First Line: Wipes her nose Last Line: To come on so CROW JANE: CROW JANE THE CROOK First Line: Of the night %of the rain, she Last Line: Oh, jane, we thought you had gone CROW JANE: CROW JANE'S MANNER First Line: Is some pilgrimage to thought. Where she goes, in fairness Last Line: You leave my %other boys? CROW JANE: FOR CROW JANE, MAMA DEATH First Line: For dawn, wind Last Line: Moon lady %of useless thighs CROW JANE: THE DEAD LADY CANONIZED First Line: A thread of meaning. Meaning light %the quick Last Line: Sew up %her bleeding hole DANCE OF THE TOMS First Line: Here is the dance tom tanz DARK IS FULL OF TEARS First Line: When albert returned from Last Line: It was stupid to believe %in him DAS KAPITAL First Line: Strangling women in the suburban bush Last Line: Who is the maniac, and why everywhere at the same time DAVID COPPERHEAD First Line: On the stairs, in the house, on a street DAZED AND OUT OF THEIR WOOL HEADS.' First Line: The conquered, the prisoners, stand in line DEADLY EYES ARE STARS! First Line: Fools %say, I've sd it DEATH IS NOT AS NATURAL AS YOU FAGS SEEM TO THINK Poem Text First Line: I hunt Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH OF NICK CHARLES First Line: ...And how much of this Last Line: & you will not be able %to wake me Subject(s): African Americans DERANGED GUTBUCKET PIGTONGUE CLAPPER HEART First Line: Beats now from DIALOGUE W/NOISE First Line: Can the devil, %explain evil? Last Line: You think %it's %interesting? DICTATORSHIP OF THE PROLITARIAT DIS FIRMATIVE NEGROSSITY First Line: Dead ass spooks' spook spooking Last Line: Might even can %carry %a tune DOPE First Line: Uuuuuuuuuuu %ray light morning fire lynch yet Last Line: A men DUKE'S WORLD First Line: Passion flower for 'strays' %is the explanation Last Line: Is where we go if we are good ELECTION DAY First Line: The lies of young boys are to be heard about, or read about END OF MAN IS HIS BEAUTY First Line: And silence %which proves but Last Line: Whose deaths are legends %for their kind EPISTROPHE First Line: It's such a static reference; looking Last Line: I wish some weird looking animal %would come along EVERY FULL MOON First Line: I get horrible letters %from ghosts Last Line: Tell me %the difference'? EVIL NIGGER WAITS FOR LIGHTNIN' First Line: Alone, at night, with all the world Last Line: Its %reason FASHION THIS, FROM THE IRONY OF THE WORLD First Line: That I, the undaunted laureate of the place, daunted in some Last Line: Who would love goodness FOLKS First Line: Dont %bite FOR A LADY I KNOW First Line: Talk the talk I need FOR EDWARD DORN First Line: In blackest day, in blackest night FOR HETTIE First Line: My wife is left-handed Last Line: I ain't quite so sure FOR JACK SPICER First Line: Now like all dead poets you live at the nexus FOR MAULANKA KARENGA & PHAROAH SANDERS First Line: The body of man is evolved to a brain Last Line: We began %to sing FOR THE REVOLUTIONARY OUTBURST BY BLACK PEOPLE First Line: The next outburst %by the black nation FORENSIC REPORT First Line: The killers cd wear Last Line: That they understand %this FRIDAY First Line: And so we leave. Hurrying. The bags packed FROM THE EGYPTIAN First Line: I will slaughter %the enemies FUNK LORE Poem Text First Line: We are the blues Last Line: We is ouselves / the blues Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations FUNK LORE First Line: We are the blues Last Line: We is ourselves %the blues Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations FUNK'S MEMORY First Line: Plays on & on place after place into futures past Last Line: A life of pictures %everything always %alive FUNKY BUTT, AN AMERICAN NEGRO MISSED-EQUAL PUET First Line: Funky butt, funky butt in the nation FUSION RECIPE First Line: Take a pinch of %quote r & b Last Line: Until it turns %to %cheap furniture GETTING DOWN! First Line: Sisyphus explained %why he cant stand Last Line: Who blew up ralph featherstone's car GIBSON First Line: Old boy in 1492, sailing west toward sun dash, was hip GOLGOTHA LOCAL First Line: Then the question rose Last Line: Ask miles david, he dead, so what? GOODBYE! First Line: If we call %to ourselves Last Line: I'll wait here for a few seconds, please come GUERRILLA HANDBOOK First Line: In the palm Last Line: We must convince the living %that the dead %cannot sing Subject(s): Social Protest HEGEL First Line: Cut out %the insides HERE HE COMES AGAIN First Line: Dark crowds in my face, my lips HISTORY AS PROCESS First Line: The evaluation of the mysteries by the sons of all HISTORY IS A BITCH First Line: Can you understand inside the cover you tell Last Line: Imitation dancer wd immortalize the fool HISTORY ON WHEELS First Line: Civil rights %included nathan HOUDINI First Line: Poured, white powder HYMN FOR LANIE POO Poem Text First Line: O / these wild trees Last Line: For that mayyer, by god Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Racism; Sisters; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry HYMN FOR LANIE POO First Line: O %these wild trees Last Line: Benevolent step %mother america Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Racism; Sisters I AM First Line: We are being told of the greatness Last Line: Something that indicates their importance I DON'T LOVE YOU First Line: Whatever you've given me, whiteface glass Last Line: I don't love you I SUBSTITUTE FOR THE DEAD LECTURER First Line: They have turned, and say that I am dying. That Last Line: My stewed black skull, %an empty cage of failure IN MEMORY OF RADIO Poem Text First Line: Who has ever stopped to think of the divinity of lamont cranston? Subject(s): Radio IN MEMORY OF RADIO First Line: Who has ever stopped to think of the divinity of lamont cranston? Last Line: An evil word it is %this love Subject(s): Radio IN THE FUGITIVE Poem Text First Line: Richard kemble kept insisting Last Line: Oddly resembles low german Subject(s): Innocence; Television; Tv IN THE FUGITIVE First Line: Richard kemble kept insisting Last Line: Oddly resembles low german Subject(s): Innocence; Television IN THE FUNK WORLD First Line: If elvis presley/is %king Last Line: Who is james brown, %god IN THE TRADITION Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Blues walk weeps ragtime Last Line: Death to the klan! Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians IN THE YEAR OF RECONSTRUCTION, 1969, WE TURN AGAIN INCIDENT Poem Text First Line: He came back and shot. He shot him. When he came Last Line: Of his hands and fingers, we know nothing Subject(s): Murder INCIDENT First Line: He came back and shot. He shot him. When he came Last Line: Of his hands and fingers, we know nothing Subject(s): Murder INSIDE OUT First Line: Presences, all voices lights touches ideas came in here INSIDIOUS DR. FU MANCHU First Line: If I think myself INTERESTING CIRCULATING First Line: No face stares from the dark INVENTION OF COMICS First Line: I am a soul in the world: in Last Line: And his sea, and its moon, and %the soft fire throbbing. Kind %death. O %my dark and sultry %love Subject(s): African Americans IT'S NATION TIME Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Time to get / together Last Line: It's nation / time! Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism; Negroes; American Blacks IT'S NATION TIME First Line: Time to get %together Last Line: It's nation %time! Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism J. SAID, OUR WHOLE UNIVERSE IS GENERATED BY A RHYTHM First Line: Is dualism, the shadow inserted Last Line: And listen. Do not laugh, whatever you do JA ZZ: (THE SAY WHAT? ) IS IS JA LIVES First Line: Yes bees! %god-electric Last Line: Becoming the one JIM BROWN ON THE SCREEN First Line: Is the past in a new package, in daylight sunlight JITTERBUGS First Line: The imperfection of the world KA 'BA Poem Text First Line: A closed window looks down Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Negroes; American Blacks KA 'BA First Line: A closed window looks down Last Line: Return, destroy, and create. What will be %the sacred words Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations KENYATTA LISTENING TO MOZART First Line: On the back trails, in sun glasses Last Line: If you go %for that KUTOA UMOJA First Line: Oooowwooooooooo what can it be LADY BUG First Line: The motherfuckin' %heart, of the LEADBELLY GIVES AN AUTOGRAPH Poem Text First Line: Pat your foot / and turn the corner. Nat turner, dying wood Last Line: Burned to death / in south carolina Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism; Ledbetter, Huddie [leadbelly] (1888-1949); Negroes; American Blacks LEADBELLY GIVES AN AUTOGRAPH First Line: Pat your foot %and turn the corner. Nat turner, dying wood Last Line: Burned to death %in south carolina Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism LEGACY Poem Text First Line: In the south, sleeping against Subject(s): Blues (music) LEGACY (FOR BLUES PEOPLE) First Line: In the south, sleeping against Last Line: Towards the songs' pretended sea LEROY Poem Text First Line: I wanted to know my mother when she sat Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism; Negroes; American Blacks LEROY First Line: I wanted to know my mother when she sat Last Line: Useful parts, the sweet meat of my feelings. And leave %the bitter bullshit rotten white parts %alon Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism LETTER TO E. FRANKLIN FRAZIER First Line: Those days when it was all right Last Line: Stifles the present. And the future, my man, is long %time gone LIAR First Line: What I thought was love Last Line: Who is dead? I wonder %who they will mean? LIKE ROUSSEAU Poem Text First Line: She stands beside me, stands away, Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares LIKE, THIS IS WHAT I MEANT! First Line: Poetry makes a statement LINES TO GARCIA LORCA First Line: Send soldiers again to kill you, garcia Last Line: Like a spanish guitar LITTLE BROWN JUG First Line: Who are you? LIVE NIGGERS - STOP BULLSHITTING First Line: Disturb as dust falls happy young blood LOKU First Line: Hold me she LOOK FOR YOU YESTERDAY, HERE YOU COME TODAY First Line: Part of my charm Last Line: & tonto way off in the hills %moaning like bessie smith Subject(s): African Americans LOVE IS THE PRESENCE OF NO ENEMY First Line: In a blue summer ending begging of evening LOWCOUP Poem Text First Line: Craziness is no / act Last Line: To speak / for god Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness LOWCOUP First Line: Craziness is no %act Last Line: Not to %act %is crazinezz Subject(s): Insanity LOWDOWN First Line: We are in the era of imminent brake failure, breakdown LULLABY OF AVON AVE. First Line: I used to walk past sassy's crib Last Line: I'm gone, now %send in %the %clowns MADNESS First Line: The white man %at best is corny MALCOLM REMEMBERED (FEB. '77) Poem Text First Line: Malcolm / callin you back thru years Last Line: Until our victory, comrade malcolm, until our victory! Subject(s): African Americans; Malcolm X (malcolm Little) (1925-1965); Negroes; American Blacks MALCOLM REMEMBERED (FEB. '77) First Line: Malcolm %callin you back thru years Subject(s): African Americans; Malcolm X (malcolm Little) (1925-1965) MASKED ANGEL COSTUME: THE SAYINGS OF MANTAN MORELAND First Line: Never let a ghost Last Line: They never %failed MCVOUTY BIBLE First Line: After they killed %nigger jesus Last Line: Dirt brown %so the water %muddy MEDITATION ON BOB KAUFMAN First Line: Frink / %/ kauf meant thought Last Line: Hoo ray %hoo ray! METROPOLIS OF DEPRAVED BEINGS First Line: They will always %get a nigger MINUTE OF CONSCIOUSNESS First Line: You pay for it, for sure, dont let nobody tell you you don Last Line: Hits a certain note, mighty MONEY First Line: Prophets %become %profits Last Line: As good itself %in all accents MONK ZEN First Line: Monk %always %come in a %place Last Line: You musta heard us MONK'S WORLD First Line: That street where midnight Last Line: & scattered flying things NATION IS LIKE OURSELVES, TOGETHER Last Line: Like james brown say %please please please NEW REALITY IS BETTER THAN A NEW MOVIE! First Line: How will it go, crumbling earthquake, towering inferno, juggernaut Last Line: We want it all - the whole world! NEW WORLD First Line: The sun is folding, cars stall and rise Last Line: Older, but no wiser than the defect of love NEWSHIT First Line: The lovers speak to each other as if they were born NIGGY THE HO First Line: Many years ago in ol time america NIXON First Line: With his pointed head Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996) NIXON First Line: With his pointed head Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996) NO MATTER, NO MATTER, THE WORLD IS THE WORLD First Line: A broke dead genius %moved on to dust NOTES FOR A SPEECH First Line: African blues %does not know me Last Line: You are %as any other sad man here %american NOTHING MORE TO SAY First Line: There is nothing more to say NUMBERS, LETTERS Poem Text First Line: If you're not home, where Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism; Negroes; American Blacks NUMBERS, LETTERS First Line: If you're not home, where Last Line: Today is the history we must learn %to desire. There is no guilt in love Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism OCT-69 First Line: I look up from my 12 year old's nod ODE TO THE CREATURE First Line: I din't think this was Last Line: Yr dig is dead %scribble scribble OEDIPUS AS CULTURE HERO! First Line: Sophocles confirms OF WHAT USE IS POETRY? (BABALU MEETS THE WOLFMAN) First Line: What do yo mean %by use? Last Line: And put yr hands up! ON THE MONEY First Line: Ugly ugly ugly ugly ugly ugly ugly ugly ONE NIGHT STAND First Line: We entered the city at noon! High bells. The radio on ONE THURSDAY I FOUND THIS IN MY NOTEBOOK First Line: When love is perfected, when love Last Line: Sound like %duke ellington OSTRICHES AND GRANDMOTHERS First Line: All meet here with us, finally: the Last Line: Wondering at the bar's %delay OTHELLO JR. First Line: (one more time) Last Line: & there %moorish %women %freed %his %son PAUSE OF JOE First Line: Philly joe jones PEACE IN PLACE First Line: Time after time after time after time PEOPLE BURNING First Line: They now gonna make us shut up. Ease POEM First Line: For their clean bodies, and malcolm's eyes POEM FOR ANNA RUSS AND FANNY JONES First Line: An old story - the world - old now for us who was once a young stormy buck POEM FOR BLACK HEARTS First Line: For malcolm's eyes, when they broke Last Line: We fail, and white men call us faggots till the end of %the earth Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism; Malcolm X (malcolm Little) (1925-1965) POEM FOR DEEP THINKERS First Line: Skymen coming down out the clouds land Last Line: Is what side yall gon be on POEM FOR HALFWHITE COLLEGE STUDENTS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Who are you, listening to me, who are you Last Line: You might be surprised right out the window, whistling dixie on the way in Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism; Negroes; American Blacks POEM FOR HALFWHITE COLLEGE STUDENTS First Line: Who are you, listening to me, who are you Last Line: You might be suprised right out the window, whistling dixie on the way in Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism POEM FOR RELIGIOUS FANATICS First Line: There is a sickness to the black man %living in white town POEM FOR SPECULATIVE HIPSTERS First Line: He had got, finally Last Line: He was really %nowhere POEM FOR WILLIE BEST First Line: The face sings, alone Last Line: The back door, and that hideous mindless grin. %hear? POEM OF DESTINY, FR. THE CITY OF NEW ARK: BOOK ONE First Line: New ark space Last Line: Our hearts %rap %the sun's language POEM SOME PEOPLE WILL HAVE TO UNDERSTAND First Line: Dull unwashed windows of eyes Last Line: Will the machinegunners please step forward? Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism; Men POLITICAL POEM Poem Text First Line: Luxury, then, is a way of / being ignorant, comfortably Subject(s): Social Protest POLITICAL POEM First Line: Luxury, then, is a way of %being ignorant, comfortably Last Line: Lamenting thru gipsies his fast suicide Subject(s): Social Protest POLITICS OF RICH PAINTERS First Line: Is something like the rest %of our doubt Last Line: Think, perhaps, the title of your latest painting %another name for liar PRAYER FOR SAVING First Line: Survive and defend PRECISE TECHNIQUES First Line: No immature bullshit PREFACE TO A TWENTY VOLUME SUICIDE NOTE Poem Text First Line: Lately, I've become accustomed to the way Subject(s): African Americans; Fathers & Daughters; Negroes; American Blacks PREFACE TO A TWENTY VOLUME SUICIDE NOTE First Line: Lately, I've become accustomed to the way Last Line: Only she on her knees, peeking into %her own clasped hands Subject(s): African Americans; Fathers And Daughters PREMISES NOT QUITE CONDEMNED First Line: An altered man %in the sea of a city PRES SPOKE IN A LANGUAGE Last Line: Save all that comrades, we need it PRIEST POEM First Line: A lecture past dead cats PROFOUND IS LOST LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE First Line: There are more lies %in print RACE LINE' IS A PRODUCT OF CAPITALISM First Line: Today, there's no need for backwardness READING AND WEEPING First Line: Lust hearts stalk nights REAL LIFE First Line: Ted, ted? In the bay at the bottom of the wat REALITY First Line: From somewhere a REALITY IS DEALT WITH First Line: Dealt with reality is better to be with RED AUTUMN First Line: Communist sparrows gnawing on a fire escape RED EYE First Line: The corrupt madness of the individual. You cannot live RED LIGHT First Line: The only thing we know is the thing REICHSTAG 2 First Line: How per fect that it was a muslim Last Line: & greed will become %moral outrage REPRISE OF ONE OF A.G.'S BEST POEMS! First Line: America existed in %its ribboned columns Last Line: It's the only %way! RETURN OF THE NATIVE Poem Text First Line: Harlem is vicious / modernism Last Line: Are so familiar Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism; Negroes; American Blacks RETURN OF THE NATIVE First Line: Harlem is vicious %modernism Last Line: In joy, that our lives %are so familiar Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism REVELATION IN BRICK CITY First Line: Same time, on the street Last Line: As it be. You dig. Try that REVOLUTIONARY LOVE First Line: Black revolutionary woman Last Line: I'd call you wife RHYTHMN & BLUES (1 (FOR ROBERT WILLIAMS, IN EXILE) First Line: The symbols hang limply Last Line: Who will tell you it will be beautiful ROCKEFELLER IS YO VICE PRESIDENT First Line: Kenny g. W %malla yalla (a fatlady %her own circus) Subject(s): Rockefeller, Nelson (1908-1979) SAD COWBOY First Line: All the world, is hatred SALIK First Line: The word is edged with fire. The word is SATURDAY SCHOOL First Line: Where plays the steeple the people the simple episodes of %what Last Line: Bottom of our shoes, our soles, for some the heels SAYONARA, TOKYO First Line: Coming in %coming out SCENARIO: 6 First Line: And I come out of it Last Line: On stolen animals we will be amazed by SCHOOL OF PRAYER First Line: A hollow eye sees moons dance SEIZE THE TIME First Line: If you come out %the tree Last Line: & we trying to get %an antidote for that SERMON FOR OUR MATURITY First Line: We want to be all we can SHORT SPEECH TO MY FRIENDS First Line: A political art, let it be %tenderness Last Line: These 100 years, has never made %a mistake SIN SOARS! First Line: The american peoples' voice Last Line: & bullets whacking %into the walls SIZE PLACES First Line: The unresolved future Last Line: Sees us as %tiny ignorant %animals SNAPSHOTS OF EVERYTHING First Line: We are picked, and pick ourselves, for what we do and are SOMEBODY BLEW UP AMERICA First Line: (all thinking people %oppose terrorism Last Line: Whoooo and whooooooooo! SOMEBODY'S SLOW IS ANOTHER BODY'S FAST. (PREACHMENT) SONG First Line: I love you SONG FORM First Line: Morning uptown, quiet on the street Last Line: Even to each other. Merely to be mere, ly to be SOS Poem Text First Line: Calling black people Subject(s): African Americans; Alphabet Verse; Black Nationalism; Negroes; American Blacks SOS First Line: Calling black people Last Line: Calling all black people, come in, black people, come on in Subject(s): African Americans; Alphabet Verse; Black Nationalism SOUNDING Poem Text First Line: And so the seasons, they tell us Last Line: Blind visionaries babbling Subject(s): African Americans; Racism; Social Protest; Negroes; American Blacks; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry SOUNDING First Line: And so the seasons, they tell us Last Line: All no no no self no no no no selves no no no no world no no no no no no Subject(s): African Americans; Racism; Social Protest SPIRIT OF CREATION IS BLACKNESS First Line: Whatever happens we know we've lived SPRING SONG First Line: The juice of life, in human terms STIRLING STREET SEPTEMBER First Line: I can be the beautiful black man STORY OF THE BLACK MAN IS A FUNNY STORY First Line: If you can laugh, for centuries STUDY PEACE First Line: Out of the shadow, I am come in to you whole a black holy man Last Line: Beings of the star's mind %images cast against the eternally shifting %heavens SUPERSTAR First Line: We thought it was a game. Toss the ball Last Line: We're still trying to figure it out SYNCRETISM First Line: Bad news say Last Line: & drum cant die %& wdn't %no way T.T. JACKSON SINGS First Line: I fucked your mother Last Line: Then she found out %it wasn't even in TANGUHPAY First Line: The world speaks, and we, the blood, the main men of nature THE BLACK MAN IS MAKING NEW GODS Poem Text First Line: Atheist jews double crossers stole our secrets crossed Last Line: And put you back in a cold box Subject(s): African Americans; Racism; Negroes; American Blacks; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry THE BRIDGE Poem Text First Line: I have forgotten the head Last Line: (when you have let the song run out) will be sliding through unmentionable black Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks THE INVENTION OF COMICS Poem Text First Line: I am a soul in the world: in Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks THE NEW WORLD Poem Text First Line: The sun is folding, cars stall and rise Subject(s): Aging THE RARE BIRDS; FOR TED BERRIGAN Poem Text First Line: Brook no obscurity, merely plunging deeper Last Line: Impressions, and it was a message, from like a very rare bird. Subject(s): Berrigan, Ted (1934-1983); Birds; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Berrigan, Edmund Joseph; Songs THE WORLD IS FULL OF REMARKABLE THINGS Poem Text First Line: Quick night / easy warmth Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism; Negroes; American Blacks THREE MODES OF HISTORY AND CULTURE Poem Text First Line: Chalk mark sex of the nation, on walls we drummers Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks THREE MODES OF HISTORY AND CULTURE First Line: Chalk mark sex of the nation, on walls we drummers Last Line: And my songs will be softer %and lightly weight the air Subject(s): African Americans THREE MOVEMENTS AND A CODA First Line: The quality of night that you hate most is its black Last Line: These are songs if you have the %music TIME FACTOR A PERFECT NON-GAP First Line: All presence requires feeling TO A PUBLISHER - CUT-OUT First Line: The blight rests in your face TO ALLEN: HAIL & FAREWELL First Line: Howl reached puerto rico, late 55, whenever the Last Line: Farewell my man. Hail and farewell TO THE FAUST NEGRO TO SELL HIS SOUL TO THE DEVIL FOR THAT First Line: Oh americans who have overcome Last Line: In order for the rest of us %to live Subject(s): African Americans TODAY First Line: Reactionary middle class idealists TOM ASS CLARENCE First Line: Ask these knees if there's Last Line: They got they own %show TONE POEM First Line: A host of loves is the city, and its memory TURNCOAT First Line: The steel fibrous slant & ribboned glint Last Line: I become them, sometimes. Pure fight. Pure fantasy. Lean UNDER WORLD First Line: Sd the mayor Last Line: A queen w/out a %throne UNTITLED First Line: Christ was never in %europe!' Last Line: (neither was %krishna %muhammad %nor %buddha!) UNWE First Line: Boy & tarzan %equal %two Last Line: It black %as %sut W.W. First Line: Back home the black women are all beautiful Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism; Negroes; American Blacks W.W. First Line: Back home the black women are all beautiful Last Line: Miss muffett in a runaway ugly machine. I mean. Like that Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism WATERGATE First Line: Dead crow' is an ol ugly %eagle WAY OUT WEST Poem Text First Line: As simple an act Subject(s): Aging WAY OUT WEST; FOR GARY SNYDER First Line: As simple an act %as opening the eyes Last Line: Closing the eyes. As %simple an act. You float WE ARE HERE WE HAVE AWAITED THE COMING OF A NATURAL Last Line: Will the machinegunners please step forward WE OWN THE NIGHT Poem Text First Line: We are unfair Last Line: We own the night Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks WE OWN THE NIGHT First Line: We are unfair Last Line: The day will not save them %and we own the night Subject(s): African Americans WESTERN FRONT First Line: My intentions are colors, I'm filled with Last Line: Not, for definite, no cats we know Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism WHAS GON HAPPEN First Line: Land %will change hands WHAT AM I OFFERED First Line: Six foot tall, once president WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? First Line: The judgment of morning is to be cool WHEN WE'LL WORSHIP JESUS First Line: We'll worhsip jesus %when jesus do somthin Last Line: To visualize change, and force it. %we worship revolution WHO BLEW UP AMERICA Recitation by Author Subject(s): United States; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001; America WHO WILL SURVIVE AMERICA First Line: Who will survive america - few americans, very few negroes, no crackers at all WHOOSH! First Line: (after the rain) %I used to be simple Last Line: How did that word %come to mean that? WHY DIDNT HE TELL ME THE WHOLE TRUTH First Line: I'll give you a silver dollar WHY IT'S QUIET IN SOME CHURCHES First Line: Not a pin drops. No breathing. Please, please no sound Last Line: The missing excitement, gee, baby, sin! Our epitaph WHY'S/WISE: WISE 1 Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: If you ever find / yourself Last Line: To get / out! Subject(s): African Americans; Wit & Humor; Negroes; American Blacks WHY'S/WISE: WISE 1 First Line: If you ever find %yourself Last Line: To get %out! Subject(s): African Americans WHY'S/WISE: WISE 10 First Line: So in 1877 the lie grew Last Line: Enter booker t WHY'S/WISE: WISE 11. ROUGH HAND DREAMERS First Line: You was a country folk, on the %land Last Line: Something like %clowns WHY'S/WISE: WISE 12. A FARMER COME TO THE CITY First Line: Dirt growing in his mind Last Line: Vote among roaches WHY'S/WISE: WISE 13 First Line: And now you know Last Line: How 'ghettoes' %grow WHY'S/WISE: WISE 2 First Line: I was of people Last Line: I am among those %to be avenged WHY'S/WISE: WISE 3 First Line: Son singin Last Line: Yeh, awe gon be here %a taste Subject(s): Language WHY'S/WISE: WISE 4 First Line: No coat has I got Last Line: Thelonious %& this was in the 19th century WHY'S/WISE: WISE 5 First Line: I overheard the other night Last Line: A slave %no more WHY'S/WISE: WISE 6 First Line: Has we come far? Last Line: My shape look like black on black %and fading WHY'S/WISE: WISE 7 First Line: Back in the forest Last Line: Something funky, in the other WHY'S/WISE: WISE 8 First Line: From the country Last Line: Cdda %been WHY'S/WISE: WISE 9 First Line: Our war Last Line: Slave death and servant death and let me work for us to be WIG POEM First Line: Take off the wig WILL THEY CRY WHEN YOU'RE GONE, YOU BET First Line: You leave dead friends in %a desert Last Line: Than leave them alone in that white heat WORD FROM THE RIGHT WING First Line: President johnson %is a mass murderer WORLD IS FULL OF REMARKABLE THINGS First Line: Quick night %easy warmth Last Line: Her eyes slide %into dreams Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism WORLD IS MY POEM First Line: Poetry is not the sole means of my expression X First Line: Everything we dont understand Last Line: Pours malcolm %little %by %little YOUNG SOUL First Line: First, feel, then feel, then %read, or read, then feel, then Last Line: Use the muscle %in yr heart |
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