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Author: SANCHEZ, SONIA Matches Found: 446 Sanchez, Sonia Poet's Biography 446 poems available by this author A LOVE POEM WRITTEN FOR STERLING BROWN Poem Text First Line: I'm gonna get me some mummy tape for your love Subject(s): Love A POEM FOR ELLA FITZGERALD Poem Text First Line: When she came on the stage, this ella Subject(s): Love A POEM FOR MY FATHER Poem Text First Line: How sad it must be / to love so many women Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters A POEM FOR MY FATHER (96 YEARS OLD ON FEB. 29, 2000) Poem Text First Line: With exact wings Subject(s): Fathers; Childhood Memories A POEM FOR STERLING BROWN Poem Text First Line: What song shall I sing you Subject(s): Brown, Sterling (1901-1989) A PRAISE POEM FOR NINA SIMONE Poem Text First Line: How to honor a woman Subject(s): Simone, Nina (b. 1933) A SONG FOR SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK Poem Text First Line: See me through / your own eyes Subject(s): Love A/COLTRANE/POEM First Line: My favorite things Subject(s): Coltrane, John (1926-1967); Jazz; Music & Musicians A/COLTRANE/POEM First Line: My favorite things Last Line: If we just %lisssssssssten Subject(s): Coltrane, John (1926-1967); Jazz; Music And Musicians AN ANTHEM Poem Text First Line: Our vision is our voice Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations ANCESTOR'S VOICE First Line: Female -- nyata: how much is this death rattle Last Line: Male -- nyata? How much for him to share the calabash ANCESTOR'S VOICE First Line: Female -- jamma ga fanan Last Line: Male -- look at his hands. Is he african american ANCESTOR'S VOICE First Line: Female -- where are the gods when we need them Last Line: Male -- will their cobwebs remember us one day ANCESTOR'S VOICE (FAMILY) First Line: Male -- sala maleikum -- hello Last Line: Brother -- mangi nyo -- I am coming ANCESTOR'S VOICE (FEMALE) First Line: I hear the water whistling in squads Last Line: Old fathers know this a ccustomed chaos ANCESTOR'S VOICE (FEMALE) First Line: Drink this tea Last Line: Ornamental anger parts my smile ANCESTOR'S VOICE (FEMALE) First Line: Why won't you stand up Last Line: Your children's eyes itch for resurrection ANCESTOR'S VOICE (FEMALE) First Line: Have you prepared a place of honor for me Last Line: Have you prepared a place for us to mourn ANCESTOR'S VOICE (FEMALE) First Line: Do you remember me, -- ayyyyyy Last Line: To every resident clow? -- ayyyyyyyyyyyy ANCESTOR'S VOICE (MALE) First Line: It is necessary to remember the sea Last Line: Is there no amulet for this coming dread ANCESTOR'S VOICE (MALE) First Line: Water from my feet I return to you Last Line: Your stool forgets the flesh of ceremony ANCESTOR'S VOICE (MALE) First Line: Do you remember me, -- huh Last Line: Til you become powerless? -- hey, huh, heyyyyyyyy AND A NEW GEOGRAPHY GREETED HIM Last Line: Ammunition for a young paladin AND HE CAME MY BROTHER AT SEVENTEEN Last Line: And we watched him embrace the city and the street AND THE BARS. THE GLITTER. THE LIGHT Last Line: Searing the coastline of his acquiesce AND THE DAYS RUMMAGING HIS EYES Last Line: With gluttony and praise and unreconciled rites AND THE JOY. FEELING ANTHEM First Line: Our vision is our voice Last Line: It over my face and mouth Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations AT THE CENTER OF AUTUMN. A BONFIRE AWAY FROM YOU THESE BABY. YOU ARE SWEET BALLAD Poem Text First Line: Forgive me if I laugh Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Youth BALLAD First Line: Forgive me if I laugh %you are so sure of love Last Line: You are so young %and I too old to learn to love BEAR THE RHYTHM OF BECAME ROMEO BOUND, APPLAUDED WOMEN Last Line: Mother where do I go before I arrive BEFORE I TRAVEL BLACK FEMINIST CONFERENCE REFLECTIONS ON MARGARET WALKER: POET First Line: Chicago/october 1977/saturday afternoon/margaret walker walks her red Last Line: Mothers hummmmmming BLACK MAGIC First Line: Magic %my man BLK RHETORIC First Line: Who's gonna make all BLOOD THE SOUND OF BLOOD PADDLING DOWN THE ROAD Last Line: Conjured up a blue-black chord to ordain BLUES Poem Text First Line: I love a twenty yr old weekends BLUES First Line: In the night BLUES First Line: I love a twenty yr old weekends Last Line: Has done gone and made me try Subject(s): Love BLUES (FOR DEB) Poem Text First Line: Even though you came in december be my january man Subject(s): Love BLUES (FOR DEB) First Line: Even though you came in december be my january man Last Line: But you know I'll take you any mouth I can Subject(s): Love BLUES HAIKU Poem Text First Line: His face like chisled Last Line: Around rubber asses Subject(s): Love BLUES HAIKU Poem Text First Line: You too slippery Last Line: Hard not enough nights Subject(s): Love – Complaints BLUES HAIKU Poem Text First Line: What I need is traveling Last Line: You swimming upstream Subject(s): Love BLUES HAIKU Poem Text First Line: Let me be yo wil Last Line: Blowing you all day Subject(s): Love – Erotic BLUES HAIKU Poem Text First Line: Am I yo philly Last Line: To my house, you docked Subject(s): Love BLUES HAIKU Poem Text First Line: This is not a fire Last Line: Each time I see ya Subject(s): Passion BLUES HAIKU Poem Text First Line: Legs wrapped around you Last Line: This is not a rerun Subject(s): Love BLUES HAIKU Poem Text First Line: Is there a fo rent Last Line: Territorial rights here Subject(s): Love – Nature Of BLUES HAIKU Poem Text First Line: My face is a scarred Last Line: Comings and goings Subject(s): Love – Complaints BLUES HAIKU First Line: When we say good-bye Last Line: Mouth dancing hello Subject(s): Love BLUES HAIKU First Line: You too slippery Last Line: Hard. Not enough nites Subject(s): Love BLUES HAIKU First Line: What I need is traveling Last Line: You swimming upstream Subject(s): Love BLUES HAIKU First Line: Let me be yo wil Last Line: Blowing you all day Subject(s): Love BLUES HAIKU First Line: Am I yo philly Last Line: To my house, you docked Subject(s): Love BLUES HAIKU First Line: I ain't yo momma Last Line: Who knows how to burn Subject(s): Love BLUES HAIKU First Line: This is not a fire Last Line: Each time I see ya Subject(s): Love BLUES HAIKU First Line: I wuz in kansas Last Line: A jacuzzi. Sky. You Subject(s): Love BLUES HAIKU First Line: Legs wrapped around you Last Line: This is not a rerun Subject(s): Love BLUES HAIKU First Line: Is there a fo rent Last Line: Territorial rights here Subject(s): Love BLUES HAIKU First Line: My face is a scarred Last Line: Comings and goings Subject(s): Love BLUES HAIKU First Line: His face like chisled Last Line: Around rubber asses Subject(s): Love BLUES HAIKU (FOR JESSE AND VAL) First Line: Yall talkin all under Last Line: Friends be doing that Subject(s): Love BLUES HAIKU 1 First Line: All this talk bout love Last Line: Ain't no man can love BLUES HAIKU 2 First Line: Ain't no curves in his Last Line: No curves in his tongue BLUES MAGIC Poem Text First Line: Magic / my man Last Line: Me breathe Subject(s): Love – Erotic BROTHER'S VOICE First Line: There is nothing I do not comprehend Last Line: I worship stone I will not betray you father BROTHER'S VOICE First Line: Hold me with air Last Line: Rinse me with air BROTHER'S VOICE First Line: O forgive me mother Last Line: O forgive me terror BROTHER'S VOICE First Line: I come. Doctor Last Line: I come. Ancestor BROTHER'S VOICE First Line: I am going out of my cell Last Line: Mangi dem, mangi dem, mangi dem BROTHER'S VOICE First Line: Dress me in white Last Line: Of my spirit's white BROTHER'S VOICE First Line: I checked myself out of the hospital Last Line: Up here, my limbs sequester themselves in lightning BROTHER'S VOICE First Line: I linger in stethoscopes and thermometers at lenox hill Last Line: The doctor says my temperature is like a trickster BROTHER'S VOICE First Line: Sister tell me about this cough I cough Last Line: Sister an echo surrounds my lungs with this cough, I cough BROTHER'S VOICE First Line: I travel to india, father, sai baba says I must return Last Line: I walk wide-eyed through blue slits of sound BROTHER'S VOICE First Line: Sister tell me about this marriage crown Last Line: While my face flows full with promise BULLET HOLES OF RESISTANCE First Line: In 1987, I visited nicaragua with a Last Line: Own. And we were one. For a while. In between bullets and CAME THE RALLIES SPONSORED BY NEW YORK STORE Last Line: Piercing the cold corners with a new carriage CAME THE SUMMER OF NINETEEN SIXTY Last Line: This alchemist. This strategist. This purist CATCH THE FIRE First Line: Sometimes I wonder: what to say to you now Last Line: Catch the fire...And live. %live. %livelivelivelive. %livve. %live CAUSE WE ARE CARVING COLTRANE POEM, SELS. COME INTO BLACK GEOGRAPHY Last Line: Songs and gathered gods %convenient as christ Variant Title(s): Pas DANCING Poem Text First Line: I dreamt I was tangoing with Subject(s): Love DANCING First Line: I dreamt I was tangoing with Last Line: I heard my thighs singing Subject(s): Love DAUGHTER'S VOICE First Line: Mothermothermother Last Line: No resident tubes to collect these final dregs DAY HE TRAVELED TO MY DAUGHTER'S HOUSE Last Line: In the sentence of the unaccented DEFINITION FOR BLK/CHILDREN First Line: A policeman Last Line: The policeman %is a pig. %(oink/ %oink.) DEPRESSION Poem Text First Line: I have gone into my eyes Subject(s): Depression. Mental DEPRESSION First Line: I have gone into my eyes Last Line: And sigh the quiet, like gods DON'T GO. IF YOU GO EARTH EYES. BREATHING ME EARTH MOTHER First Line: Old/ bells. Bells. Bells Last Line: I can see you coming Subject(s): Women ELEGY (FOR 'MOVE' AND PHILADELPHIA) Poem Text First Line: Philadelphia / a disguised southern city Subject(s): Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Social Protest ELEGY (FOR 'MOVE' AND PHILADELPHIA) First Line: Philadelphia %a disguised southern city Last Line: Lying in wait. For honor and peace. %one day Subject(s): Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Social Protest EYEWITNESS: CASE NO. 3456 First Line: I was raped at 3 o'clock one Last Line: Saw that the morning had returned and put on my face FAMILIARIZE YOUR FATHER AND DAUGHTER First Line: We talk of light things you and I in this FATHER AND DAUGHTER First Line: It is difficult to believe that we FATHER AND DAUGHTER First Line: We talk of light things you and I in this Last Line: Old man, we do not speak of crosses Subject(s): Literary Form FATHER'S VOICE First Line: Steady your hand old man do not trouble Last Line: Can you hear me son, as I cross over this river FATHER'S VOICE First Line: I am preparing for his coming, I sit on my flesh Last Line: I have tossed my net toward a future trust FATHER'S VOICE First Line: Where to go Last Line: What kind of day anoints his flesh with effigies FATHER'S VOICE First Line: I'm leaving this message on your voice mail Last Line: I pray his corpuscles learn how to abstain FATHER. I DESPISE YOU FOR ABANDONING ME Last Line: My attention. Come o lords; my extended metaphor FIRST HE AUCTIONED OFF HIS LEGS. EYES Last Line: Damned his sister's overture FOR OUR LADY Poem Text First Line: Yeh. / billie. If someone Subject(s): Women FOR OUR LADY First Line: Yeh. %billie. If someone Last Line: Wud have led us Subject(s): Women FOR SISTER GWEN BROOKS First Line: You tell the stars Last Line: This gwensister called life Subject(s): Love FOR TUPAC AMARU SHAKUR First Line: Who goes there? Who is this young man born lonely Last Line: For brother %tupac %amaru %shakur Subject(s): Love FOR UNBORN MALCOLMS Poem Text First Line: Git the word out Last Line: A stone/ cold/ death / yeah Subject(s): African Americans; Malcolm X (malcolm Little) (1925-1965); Negroes; American Blacks FOR UNBORN MALCOLMS First Line: Git the word out Last Line: Is gonna be his white meat. %yeah Subject(s): African Americans; Malcolm X (malcolm Little) (1925-1965) FRAGMENT: 2 First Line: I am reciting the rain HAIKU Poem Text First Line: You ask me to run Last Line: I am holding your pulse HAIKU Poem Text First Line: Let every breast dance Last Line: I raise my glass Subject(s): Rain HAIKU Poem Text First Line: I count the morning Last Line: Riverdark with sound Subject(s): Stars HAIKU Poem Text First Line: I come from the same Last Line: Nobody speaks in tongues Subject(s): Self HAIKU Poem Text First Line: I have caught fire from Last Line: Swallow the ocean Subject(s): Love – Erotic HAIKU Poem Text First Line: I turn westward in Last Line: Will cross yours in passing Subject(s): Conduct Of Life HAIKU Poem Text First Line: Hunger comes on morning Last Line: Wide is the river Subject(s): Hunger HAIKU Poem Text First Line: Come windless invader Last Line: Stars a poem of blood Subject(s): Self HAIKU Poem Text First Line: What is done is done Last Line: You like a dark river Subject(s): Relationships HAIKU Poem Text First Line: I am watersnake Last Line: Hear me turn in blood Subject(s): Love HAIKU Poem Text First Line: Mixed with day and sun Last Line: You like a dark river Subject(s): Love HAIKU Poem Text First Line: How fast is the wind Last Line: To become slow? Subject(s): Conduct Of Life HAIKU Poem Text First Line: C'mon man hold me Last Line: From behind your eyes Subject(s): Love HAIKU Poem Text First Line: How still the morning sea Last Line: Anointing the day Subject(s): Sea; Silence HAIKU Poem Text First Line: I am who I am Last Line: Above two knees Subject(s): Self HAIKU Poem Text First Line: In a season of Last Line: Unapologetic Subject(s): Betrayal HAIKU Poem Text First Line: I am you loving Last Line: Thisd noontime butterfly Subject(s): Shadows; Love; Butterflies HAIKU Poem Text First Line: Derelict with eyes Last Line: Carnival of waves Subject(s): Self HAIKU Poem Text First Line: The I in you the Last Line: One drop of semen Subject(s): Love – Erotic HAIKU Poem Text First Line: I taste your sweet salt come Last Line: Of bedtime fairy tales Subject(s): Love HAIKU Poem Text First Line: My teeth can write your Last Line: Your sound graffiti-like Subject(s): Teeth; Love HAIKU Poem Text First Line: I have carved your face Last Line: In my off-key voice Subject(s): Love HAIKU Poem Text First Line: I am a small piece Last Line: Like a leper Subject(s): Self HAIKU Poem Text First Line: To be lifted in Last Line: Remembering the fire Subject(s): Fire HAIKU Poem Text First Line: It was nothing big Last Line: Lotion on my back Subject(s): Love – Absence Of HAIKU Poem Text First Line: Do you want ashes Last Line: Other faces will come Subject(s): Jealousy HAIKU Poem Text First Line: You are rock garden Last Line: In exile from touch Subject(s): Love – Nature Of HAIKU Poem Text First Line: Your voice unwrapping Last Line: Contagious as shrines Subject(s): Robeson, Paul (1898-1976) HAIKU Poem Text First Line: Was it yesterday Last Line: Made it blossom black? Subject(s): African Americans; Love HAIKU Poem Text First Line: My bones migrate in Last Line: They strean white ashes Subject(s): Bones HAIKU First Line: I want to make you Last Line: You into morning HAIKU First Line: Was it yesterday HAIKU First Line: O I was wide and HAIKU First Line: O I am so sad, I HAIKU First Line: If I had known, if HAIKU First Line: I saw you today HAIKU First Line: I am now in the HAIKU First Line: Did ya ever cry HAIKU First Line: These waves boisterous like Last Line: Howling in my veins Subject(s): Love HAIKU First Line: Let every breast dance Last Line: I raise my glass Subject(s): Love HAIKU First Line: I count the morning Last Line: Riverdark with sound Subject(s): Love HAIKU First Line: I come from the same Last Line: Body speaks in tongues Subject(s): Love HAIKU First Line: I have caught fire from Last Line: Swallow the ocean Subject(s): Love HAIKU First Line: I await your touch Last Line: Make of us a long journey Subject(s): Love HAIKU First Line: I turn westward in Last Line: Will cross yours in passing Subject(s): Love HAIKU First Line: Hunger comes on morning Last Line: Wide is the river Subject(s): Love HAIKU First Line: Come windless invader Last Line: Stars a poem of blood Subject(s): Love HAIKU First Line: I am moving in Last Line: Foot thunderbound bells Subject(s): Love HAIKU First Line: Now I move in the Last Line: Pores a cappella Subject(s): Love HAIKU First Line: I cry out for the Last Line: Liberate with blood Subject(s): Love HAIKU First Line: What is done is done Last Line: Let it go...Like the wind Subject(s): Love HAIKU First Line: Old man standing long Last Line: Like an old rickshaw Subject(s): Love HAIKU First Line: It is I who have Last Line: O cold the morning cock Subject(s): Love HAIKU First Line: I am watersnake Last Line: Hear me turn in blood Subject(s): Love HAIKU First Line: I am the ugly Last Line: Eyes shaking like leaves Subject(s): Love HAIKU First Line: Have you ever crossed Last Line: Morning cough yellow Subject(s): Love HAIKU First Line: Mixed with day and sun Last Line: You like a dark river Subject(s): Love HAIKU First Line: How fast is the wind Last Line: To become slow Subject(s): Love HAIKU First Line: My womb is a dance Last Line: I laugh with guitars Subject(s): Love HAIKU First Line: C'mon man hold me Last Line: From behind your eyes Subject(s): Love HAIKU First Line: How still the morning sea Last Line: Anointing the day Subject(s): Love HAIKU First Line: I am who I am Last Line: Above two knees Subject(s): Love HAIKU First Line: In a season of Last Line: Unapologetic Subject(s): Love HAIKU First Line: I am you loving Last Line: This noontime butterfly Subject(s): Love HAIKU First Line: I am looking for Last Line: A fine hail of touch Subject(s): Love HAIKU First Line: Derelict with eyes Last Line: Carnival of waves Subject(s): Love HAIKU First Line: The I in you the Last Line: One drop of semen Subject(s): Love HAIKU First Line: I taste your sweet salt come Last Line: Of bedtime fairy tales Subject(s): Love HAIKU First Line: A tint on the tongue Last Line: I dust off your cough Subject(s): Love HAIKU First Line: My teeth can write your Last Line: Your sound graffiti-like Subject(s): Love HAIKU First Line: I have carved your face Last Line: In my off-key voice Subject(s): Love HAIKU First Line: I am a small piece Last Line: Like a leper Subject(s): Love HAIKU First Line: To be lifted in Last Line: Remembering the fire Subject(s): Love HAIKU First Line: It was nothing big Last Line: Lotion on my back Subject(s): Love HAIKU First Line: The sea murmuring Last Line: Alive in my veins Subject(s): Love HAIKU First Line: I hear your breath Last Line: Breathing castanets Subject(s): Love HAIKU First Line: I smell you on my Last Line: I see your sweat running Subject(s): Love HAIKU First Line: Red orange breasts sweet Last Line: Wild bones up for sale Subject(s): Love HAIKU First Line: And I am flesh burnt Last Line: Philadelphia blood Subject(s): Love HAIKU First Line: This poem is for me Last Line: Still I laugh and spin Subject(s): Love HAIKU First Line: Do you want ashes Last Line: Other faces will come Subject(s): Love HAIKU First Line: If I were an old Last Line: My laughter in check Subject(s): Love HAIKU First Line: You are rock garden Last Line: In exile from touch Subject(s): Love HAIKU First Line: Your voice unwrapping Last Line: Contagious as shrines Subject(s): Literary Form HAIKU First Line: Was it yesterday Last Line: Made it blossom black Subject(s): Literary Form HAIKU First Line: We are sudden stars Last Line: Our blue black skins HAIKU (FOR BILL AND CAMILLE COSBY) Poem Text First Line: My bones hang to Last Line: Shake loose my skin Subject(s): Love HAIKU (FOR BILL AND CAMILLE) First Line: My bones hang to Last Line: Shake loose my skin Subject(s): Love HAIKU (FOR JOANNE) Poem Text First Line: Sweet woman dancing Last Line: I see your riverbound legs Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers HAIKU (FOR JOANNE) First Line: Sweet woman dancing Last Line: Your riverbound legs Subject(s): Love HAIKU (FOR JOE BARRY) Poem Text First Line: When I imagine Last Line: Flowing with eyes Subject(s): Love; Rivers HAIKU (FOR JOE BARRY) First Line: When I imagine Last Line: Flowing with eyes Subject(s): Love HAIKU (FOR LOUIS MASSIAH) First Line: Your leonine eyes Last Line: Violets and steel Subject(s): Love HAIKU (FOR NNEKA AND QUENTIN) Poem Text First Line: I listen to this blood Last Line: I grow with laughter Subject(s): Love HAIKU (FOR NNEKA AND QUENTIN) First Line: I listen to this blood Last Line: I grow with laughter Subject(s): Love HAIKU (FOR QUEEN MOTHER MOORE) Poem Text First Line: They smell like rust Last Line: Obscure men in heat Subject(s): Passion HAIKU (FOR QUEEN MOTHER MOORE) First Line: They smell like rust Last Line: Obscure men in heat Subject(s): Love HAIKU (FOR SOPHIE AND VAL) First Line: In this wet season Last Line: We catch birds in flight Subject(s): Love HAIKU (FOR YOU) Poem Text First Line: Love between us is Subject(s): Love HAIKU (FOR YOU) First Line: Love between us is Last Line: A long river running Subject(s): Love HAIKU (ON PASSING TONI CADE BAMBARA'S HOUSE) First Line: How are we here one Last Line: Run fall down to death Subject(s): Love HAIKU (QUESTION FROM A YOUNG SISTER) Poem Text First Line: What's wrong with being Subject(s): Love HAIKU (QUESTION FROM A YOUNG SISTER) First Line: What's wrong with being Last Line: We let it all hang out Subject(s): Love HAIKU 1 First Line: I have died and dreamed Last Line: What I died for sleeps HAIKU 1 First Line: But I am left with Last Line: Hear my voice knocking Subject(s): Love HAIKU 2 First Line: Everywhere I turn Last Line: Enter into your smell HAIKU 2 First Line: My bones migrate in Last Line: They stream white ashes Subject(s): Love HAIKU 3 First Line: I think if I catch Last Line: Me you will stay HAIKU 4 First Line: Your breath in exile Last Line: My persistent air HAIKU 5 First Line: My body is scarred Last Line: I am word bitten HAIKU 6 First Line: If I had know then Last Line: Picked my own cotton HAIKU 7 First Line: Tell me about your lust Last Line: Into your own cell HAIKU 8 First Line: I am hunched down in Last Line: With my depression HAIKU 9 First Line: The sprawling sound Last Line: A white butterfly HAIKY First Line: You ask me to run Last Line: I am holding your pulse Subject(s): Love HIS VOICE USED TO SING HOMECOMING First Line: I have been a Last Line: I have learned it %ain't like they say %in the newspapers HOMEGIRLS ON ST. NICHOLAS First Line: We were the homegirls on st. Nicholas Last Line: What is gone is gone / it has gone down the hole, the unreache irrational is he who follows it HOSPITAL/POEM First Line: They have sed Last Line: And I watch u %as I %begin the talk %of hyenaaaaas HOW CAN YOU COMFORT HOW TO ERECT RESPECT IN A COUNTRY OF MEN Last Line: Without blood and phlegm and thorn I AM ON TOP OF I AM SETTLING DOWN I AM THE FROZEN Last Line: They would pass into butterflies %and quiver in sprawling yellow I DID NOT WANT TO LEAVE YOU SON, THIS FLAME Last Line: Shaved buckled down with southern thighs I GUESS. THIS IS WHAT I HAVE LOOKED INTO I HAVE WALKED A LONG TIME Poem Text Last Line: You, man, will you remember and cry? Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Mortality; Mourning I HAVE WALKED A LONG TIME Last Line: You, man, will you remember and cry? I KNEEL DOWN LIKE A I LEAN BACK AND FEEL I LISTEN FOR YOU I PARAPLEGIC I WAS A SOUTHERN NEGRO MAN PLAYING MUSIC Last Line: Of masters fattened decked with my diminished light I WAS TOLD I DON'T REMEMBER WHO Last Line: Stilled his mouth across early morning chill I WISH IT WERE MID I'M IN THE MIDDLE IMAGINE HIM SHORT AND BLACK Last Line: And remember. Dancing his pirouette IMPROVISATION First Line: Ha ha. %ooooooooooo ai yi yi yi yi yi yi %hee hee hee Last Line: How to live...%how to live INDIANAPOLIS; SUMMER - 1969 First Line: Like %I mean INTRODUCTION OF TONI MORRISON AND OTHERS, ON THE OCCASION First Line: Of course it ain't strange that you're here in my Last Line: Of men/women/students who are here to hear. %listen. %list JULY First Line: The old men and women JUST THE TWO OF US JUST YOU. JUST ME. JUST KWA MAMA ZETU WALIOTUZAA First Line: Death is a five o'clock door forever changing time LET ME BE YOUR FLUTE LIKE First Line: Like %all I did was %go down on him Last Line: Lives I deal with. %like. %yeah LIKE BIGGER THOMAS LISTENEN TO BIG BLACK AT S.F. STATE First Line: No mo meetings Last Line: Loud with blk/nation/hood %builden Subject(s): Americans; United States LOVE CONVERSATION First Line: How are you doin sistah Last Line: Soy mujer %mujer soy %I am Subject(s): Love LOVE POEM (FOR TUPAC) Poem Text First Line: We smell the / wounds hear the Subject(s): Love LOVE POEM (FOR TUPAC) First Line: We smell the %wounds hear the Last Line: I hold you %close to my heart Subject(s): Love LOVE POEM WRITTEN FOR STERLING BROWN First Line: I'm gonna get me some mummy tape for your love Subject(s): Love LOVE SONG FOR SPELMAN First Line: What is a love song for spelman Last Line: Ebe yiye. Ebe yiye. Ebe yiye. Ebeeee yiyeeee. %we begin LOVE SONG NO. 3 First Line: I'm crazy bout that chile but she gotta go Last Line: Nobody gon remember me LOVE. YOU ARE. YOU ARE MAGIC First Line: Short magic MALCOLM Poem Text First Line: Do not speak to me of martyrdom Subject(s): African Americans; Malcolm X (malcolm Little) (1925-1965); Negroes; American Blacks MALCOLM First Line: Do not speak to me of martyrdom Last Line: But what could have been %floods the womb until I drown Subject(s): African Americans; Malcolm X (malcolm Little) (1925-1965) MAN, I AM TRYING MEMORIAL: 1. THE SUPREMES-CIZ THEY DEAD Poem Text First Line: The supremes done gone Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; African Americans - Women; Supremes, The (singing Group) MEMORIAL: 1. THE SUPREMES-CIZ THEY DEAD First Line: The supremes done gone Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; African Americans - Women; Supremes, The (singing Group) MEMORIAL: 2. BOBBY HUTTON First Line: I didn't know bobby Subject(s): African Americans - Women MEMORIAL: 3. REV PIMPS First Line: Sisters %git yr-blk-asses Last Line: To any revolutionary %u dig? Subject(s): African Americans - Women MISSING YOU IS LIKE MORNING SNOW FALLING MOTHER'S VOICE First Line: I have waited all day for this stepdaughter Last Line: I will indulge their hands in this new fantasy MOTHER'S VOICE First Line: I am here my baby in your hospital room Last Line: The doctors record your body's constant betrayal MOTHER. I LOVE YOU. YOU ARE MY LIVING SAINT Last Line: While you prepared each morning's text MY BODY WAITING NEVER MAY MY THIRST NICARAGUAN JOURNAL First Line: Nothing had prepared me for my arrival in nicaragua. Not my Last Line: Bleeding children and women. I hold out my wounds NIGHT PUMPING LIKE AN NORMA First Line: As a teen-ager I was very shy. I always felt so conspicuous that it Last Line: Then I pulled myself up and turned away; never to agree again Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations NOW MY SEVENTY-EIGHT YEARS URGE ME ON YOUR LAND Last Line: This harlem man begging pardon, secreting old NOW POEM. FOR US First Line: Don't let them die out Last Line: Let them tell us of their juju years %so ours will be that much stronger OLD WORDS First Line: We are the dead ON PASSING THRU MORGANTOWN, PA First Line: I saw you %vincent van %gogh perched Last Line: Red indian %hills beckoned ON SEEING A PACIFIST BURN First Line: The day is not %real. The crowing of Last Line: Thought to be %without meaning ON THE OCCASION OF ESSENCE'S TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY Poem Text First Line: I give you my hand in a moment of Subject(s): Essence (periodical) ON THE OCCASION OF ESSENCE'S TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY First Line: I give you my hand in a moment of Last Line: Make god finally break the habit of being man Subject(s): Essence (periodical) ONCE I WAS CHASTE WITH OUR BODIES MADE RAIN PEACE First Line: 1. Peace. What is it? Last Line: Click--click--you--youuu(click) PERSONAL LETTER NO. 2 First Line: I speak skimpily to PERSONAL LETTER NO. 3 Poem Text First Line: Nothing will keep Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks PERSONAL LETTER NO. 3 First Line: Nothing will keep Last Line: I am tired %of it all Subject(s): African Americans PHILADELPHIA: SPRING, 1985 Poem Text First Line: To see those eyes Subject(s): Social Protest PHILADELPHIA: SPRING, 1985 First Line: To see those eyes Last Line: How still is the spiderless city. %the earth is immemorial in death Subject(s): Social Protest POEM Poem Text First Line: Good morning, sex. How do you do Last Line: But when it is … Subject(s): Sex POEM Poem Text First Line: I am dreaming Last Line: For today it is enough Subject(s): Dreams POEM First Line: Look at me 8th Last Line: Beautiful and our black %ness sings out %while america wanders %dumb with her wet bowels POEM First Line: Mornings taking a Last Line: Assed life spilling starch Subject(s): Love POEM First Line: I am dreaming Last Line: Shall I hold your breath Subject(s): Love POEM First Line: Good morning, sex. How do you do Last Line: But when it is Subject(s): Love POEM First Line: What I have seen in the twentieth century Last Line: Walk in the light that is woman POEM #10 Poem Text First Line: You keep saying you were always there Subject(s): Love POEM #3 Poem Text First Line: I gather up / each sound Subject(s): Love POEM #3 First Line: I gather up %each sound Last Line: I breathe you %and become high Subject(s): Love POEM #8 Poem Text First Line: I've been a woman Subject(s): Women POEM AT THIRTY Poem Text First Line: It is midnight Last Line: Of the night. Subject(s): African Americans - Women POEM FOR CORNEL WEST First Line: Aaayeee babo aaaayeee babo Subject(s): Love POEM FOR CORNEL WEST First Line: Aaayeee babo aaaayeee babo Last Line: Aaaayeee babo for cornel west %cornel west %cornel west Subject(s): Love POEM FOR ELLA FITZGERALD First Line: When she came on the stage, this ella Last Line: Ella ella ellalady %be good %gooooood %goooooood Subject(s): Love POEM FOR JESSE First Line: Your face like %summer lightning Last Line: Hear your voice %a wild sea pausing in the wind POEM FOR JULY 4, 1994 First Line: It is essential that summer be grafted to Last Line: And sexual jusice %it'll get better %it'll get better POEM FOR MY BROTHER First Line: The day you died Last Line: O I will gather my pulse %muffled by sibilants %and follow disposable dreams POEM FOR MY FATHER First Line: How sad it must be %to love so many women Last Line: Wife, I cross myself %with her confessionals Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters POEM FOR MY MOST INTELLIGENT 10:30 AM CLASS/FALL 1985 First Line: It was autumn. The day insistent Last Line: Know now is that the coming spring %will not satisfy this thirst POEM FOR SOME WOMEN First Line: Huh? %I'm all right %I say I'm %all right Last Line: You and yu and you %and you POEM FOR STERLING BROWN First Line: What song shall I sing you Last Line: Glorifying red gums smiling tom-tom teeth Subject(s): Brown, Sterling (1901-1989) POEM NO. 10 First Line: You keep saying you were always there Last Line: Will you stay love %now that I am here? POEM NO. 3 First Line: I gather up POEM NO. 7 First Line: When he came home POEM NO. 8 First Line: I've been a woman POEM OF PRAISE First Line: Man %is an alien in this world PRELUDE TO NOTHING First Line: I am trying to drain my mind PRESENT Poem Text First Line: This woman vomiting her Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations PRESENT First Line: This woman vomiting her Last Line: Making pilgimage to herself. Walking Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations RAIN TASTES LOVELY REBIRTH First Line: When I stepped off the plane I knew I was home REFLECTIONS AFTER THE JUNE 12TH MARCH FOR DISARMAMENT Poem Text First Line: I have come to you tonite out of the depths Subject(s): African Americans; Disarmament; Negroes; American Blacks REFLECTIONS AFTER THE JUNE 12TH MARCH FOR DISARMAMENT First Line: I have come to you tonite out of the depths Last Line: New people, who will live in peace %and honor Subject(s): African Americans; Disarmament REMEMBERING AND HONORING TONI CADE BAMBARA Poem Text First Line: How to respond to the genius Last Line: Read everything? Saw everything? Subject(s): Bambara, Toni Cade (1939-1995); African Americans – Women; Social Protest; Writing & Writers REMEMBERING AND HONORING TONI CADE BAMBARA First Line: How to respond to the genius Last Line: For the world. %I have become life Subject(s): Love REMEMBRANCE First Line: The news of his death reached Last Line: For all our sweet and terrible lives RIGHT ON: WHITE AMERICA First Line: This country might have Last Line: Gun/shells on our blk/tomorrows. Subject(s): Racism; United States; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; America ROCKING HER WHITE FEET RUMOR HAS IT THAT HE SLAPPED HER HARD Last Line: Of looted hems gathering together for his inheritance SEQUENCES First Line: Today I am %tired of sabbaths Last Line: Green then blue again %my thighs burn in crystal SERMON FOR EACH DAY WAS MY FATHER Last Line: Twentieth century of elasticized lies SET 2 First Line: I say %a love poem %for sweethoneyintherock Last Line: Who are these women who call themselves %sweethoneyintherock SEVENTY-ONE YEARS SHE WASN'T AS BEAUTIFUL AS MY FIRST WIFE Last Line: Until I stopped, stepped inside her footprint SHORT POEM Poem Text First Line: Quite often without Subject(s): Love SHORT POEM First Line: My old man SHORT POEM First Line: Quite often without Last Line: You I am at a loss for %the day Subject(s): Love SHORT POEM FOR US SLICK ONES First Line: The %arabs SHREDDING MY YEARS AND SISTER'S VOICE First Line: Come down to my house in philadelphia man Last Line: Against the threat of constant confession SISTER'S VOICE First Line: Let the spirit raise up echoes in my spine Last Line: O I will reward my brother's tongue SISTER. I AM NOT YOUR TRUE BROTHER Last Line: Always a traveler to other terains SMALL COMMENT First Line: The nature of the beast is the SONG First Line: I cannot stay home Last Line: I am bathing in the waves of your breath Subject(s): Love SONG FOR SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK First Line: See me through %your own eyes Last Line: I am here %I am here Subject(s): Love SONG NO. 2 Poem Text First Line: I say. All you young girls waiting to live Subject(s): Literary Form SONG NO. 2 First Line: I say. All you young girls waiting to live Last Line: I say. Step back world. Can't let it go unsaid Subject(s): Literary Form SONG NO. 3 Poem Text First Line: Cain't nobody tell me any different Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Literary Form; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations SONG NO. 3 First Line: Cain't nobody tell me any different Last Line: Looka here, a pretty little black girl lookin' just like me Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Literary Form; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations SONKU Poem Text First Line: To worship SONKU Poem Text First Line: I feel your Last Line: Maculate tongue Subject(s): Love – Erotic SONKU Poem Text First Line: I hear the Last Line: Over my breasts Subject(s): Love – Erotic SONKU Poem Text First Line: What I want Last Line: Hey! Hey! Subject(s): Relationships SONKU Poem Text First Line: To worship Last Line: Become bone Subject(s): Love SONKU First Line: Have mercy on the Last Line: Long ride to the deep SONKU First Line: I collect %wings what are Last Line: Another %path to this %rendezvous Subject(s): Love SONKU First Line: I who have %never moved Last Line: Sweet mountains %smelling me Subject(s): Love SONKU First Line: I feel your Last Line: Thighs immac %ulate tongue Subject(s): Love SONKU First Line: I hear the Last Line: Over my breasts Subject(s): Love SONKU First Line: What is love Last Line: And saw me Subject(s): Love SONKU First Line: My eyes look Last Line: To find you Subject(s): Love SONKU First Line: When I die Last Line: Your smell %inside me Subject(s): Love SONKU First Line: What I want Last Line: Want? Hey? Hey Subject(s): Love SONKU First Line: To worship Last Line: Become bone Subject(s): Love SONKU (FOR NNEKA AND QUINCY) Poem Text First Line: Love comes with Last Line: The edge of / my fingers Subject(s): Love – Nature Of SONKU (FOR NNEKA AND QUINCY) First Line: Love comes with Last Line: The edge of %my fingers Subject(s): Love SOUTH AFRICAN TANKA First Line: The necklace I bring Last Line: Smells behind the ear of god SUMMARY First Line: No sleep tonight SUMMER HAS SPED SUMMER WORDS FOR A SISTER ADDICT Poem Text First Line: The first day I shot dope Last Line: And we all sing Subject(s): African Americans – Women; Drugs & Drug Abuse SUMMER WORDS FOR A SISTER ADDICT First Line: The first day I shot dope Last Line: To mingle with the sister's young tears %and we all sing Subject(s): African Americans - Women SUMMERPOEM: 1986 First Line: Memory I alone know SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK First Line: What an honor it is for me to Last Line: Loved us with their sweethoney breaths TANKA Poem Text First Line: To surround yourself with Last Line: And dsisolves in purple Subject(s): Love – Complaints TANKA Poem Text First Line: I thought about you Last Line: Frantic fugue about no you Subject(s): Love – Absense Of TANKA Poem Text First Line: Men who watch in the Last Line: She without friend or lover Subject(s): Love – Absence Of TANKA Poem Text First Line: This man has sucked too Last Line: Navigate a blackwomansail Subject(s): African Americans – Women; Love – Complaints TANKA Poem Text First Line: C'mon man ride me Last Line: Us to be a call to prayer Subject(s): Love – Erotic TANKA Poem Text First Line: Woman without heat Last Line: Dreams of secreting milk Subject(s): Women; Sex TANKA First Line: I have taken five Last Line: Peeling of our lives TANKA First Line: I don't know the rules Last Line: Tasting you on my breath Subject(s): Love TANKA First Line: I thought about you Last Line: Frantic fugue about no you Subject(s): Love TANKA First Line: Men who watch in nthe Last Line: She without friend or lover Subject(s): Love TANKA First Line: This man has sucked too Last Line: Navigate a blackwomansail Subject(s): Love TANKA First Line: C'mon man ride me Last Line: Us be a call to prayer Subject(s): Love TANKA First Line: Woman without heat Last Line: Dreams of secreting milk Subject(s): Love TANKA First Line: To surround yourself with Last Line: And dissolves in purple Subject(s): Love THEN I BEGAN AN AWAKENING A FLOWERING OUTSIDE Last Line: Then I made my former life an accessory THERE ARE TIMES THAT THE THESE AUTUMN TREES SIT THESE WORDS STAINED WITH RED THIS IS NOT A SMALL VOICE Last Line: This is not a small voice %you hear THIS LOVE. THIS FIRST WIFE OF MINE, DIED IN CHILDBIRTH Last Line: Never called her name again, wrapped my heart in gauze THIS WAS A MIGRATION UNLIKE Last Line: To repay desertion at last TO ALL SISTERS First Line: Hurt. U worried abt a Last Line: He puts it where it is %and makes u %turn in/side out TO ANITA Poem Text First Line: High/yellow/black/girl Subject(s): African Americans - Women TO ANITA First Line: High/yellow/black/girl Last Line: Be hearen yo/sweet/music TO P.J. (2 YRS OLD WHO SED WRITE A POEM FOR ME IN PORTLAND, OREGON) Poem Text First Line: If I cud ever write a Subject(s): African Americans; Poetry & Poets; Negroes; American Blacks TO P.J. (2 YRS OLD WHO SED WRITE A POEM FOR ME IN PORTLAND, OREGON) First Line: If I cud ever write a Last Line: Poetry wud go out of bizness Subject(s): African Americans; Poetry And Poets TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN First Line: Watch out tor the full moon of sonia Last Line: For the full moon of sonia %shinin down on ya TO YOU WHO ALMOST TURNED ME ON First Line: Yeah %my man TREES ARE LAUGHING UNDER A SOPRANO SKY Poem Text First Line: Once I lived on pillars in a green house Subject(s): Women; Conduct Of Life UNDER A SOPRANO SKY First Line: Once I lived on pillars in a green house Last Line: Under a soprano sky, a woman sings, %lovely as chandeliers WA MA NE HO MENE SO OO Last Line: He who was an orphan now recollects his legs WE ARE GATHERERS WE BE. GONNA BE WE STUMBLED INTO WHAT DO I KNOW OF WHAT DOES A LIVER KNOW OF PEACE Last Line: Stranded in measured arenas without pulpits or spittoons WHAT IS IT ABOUT WHEN I LOOK AT YOU WHEN I RETURN HOME WHEN YOU LEFT I RAN WHO ARE YOU WHY First Line: Why must I string my hate WOMAN ROCKING HER WOMAN WHO MADE WOMAN. WHOSE COLOR WORDS First Line: I saw death %today Last Line: O'clock door %forever changing time WOULD YOU PLEASE RETURN WOUNDED IN THE HOUSE OF A FRIEND First Line: She hadn't found anything. I had Last Line: Each time he come by, we do it on the installment plan YOU ARE AMBLE AND YOU DO NOT KNOW THE YOU HAVE PIERCED ME SO YOU HAVE STAMPED YOUR HOUR YOUNG WOMANHOOD First Line: And I entered into young Last Line: And legal in the sight %of an unseeing god |
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