May 19, 2019adminPoetryComments Off on Everything Broken
everything broken * by Brandon Hummons
Thick, black rimmed, broken glassed taped in the middle. The culmination of your stereotypes and I bent backwards to fit them because, because if I fit, then in some sense I was normal.
I am my own history simply because, I don’t know any better.
Dirty gutter puddles with broken lungs broken by broken glass, everything broken. I’m just too young to understand.
But I’m everything I wanted to be when I was young, minus everything that got me here. Looking in the mirror not quite there, yet not really here there, I’m only ambition in addition to the world of men that wanted me to mirror his own image.
I imagine what I would be without you. They say you wont amount to much without a father but… what if you have too many?
Too many push-ups, and not enough food perfect form with an obsolete score born of ill will, still waters stand still I am bad laughs of irritated infested blood but I am also love- I love the way hatred sounds and I… sometimes feel I am the reason my fathers cold. I was their warmth.
I am their
Disappointment.
I will be their happiness.
May 19, 2019adminPoetryComments Off on My Beloved America
my beloved america by Melony McGant
My Beloved America – Melony McGant
MyBelovedAmerica,
What Are You?
Where Is Our Cherished Democracy?
Why have you allowed Deceitful Progress to come and steal our
Children’s Future?
America, you have sent away our jobs, robbed us of our life savings or homes and taken away our Privacy, our Right to Assemble, our Free Speech and Access to Airwaves.
America, you and Deceitful Progress have used the Nation’s Courts to create monopolies for Robber Barons to steal and control our Nation.
America, you have turned neighbor against neighbor and used technology to bicker and create new wars and prisons for profit when you should be Nurturing the Brilliance,
the Creativity and the Hope of Our Children.
Stop Lying America.
Almost 50 percent of this Nation is living in Poverty.
My Beloved America…
There will be No Real Progress without Equity, Education, Integrity, Good Jobs and Respect for All the People of Our Nation!
May 19, 2019adminPoetryComments Off on Blue Lights Unto Heaven
Blue Lights Unto Heaven by Renee Matthews Jackson (In Memory of those slain on 9-11-2001)
Devastation appears on silent whim Standing, staring, as horror strikes us cold When we glance back, our face a picture grim Contorted by what has us in its hold
This day was like all others of the norm Devastation appears on silent whim Hate quietly dispensed in wretched form When we glance back, our face a picture grim
Billows of smoke shout anger in stark gray Standing, staring, as horror strikes us cold We suffer pain from loved ones passed away Contorted by what has us in its hold
There’s sadness in the hearts of many left As we try hard to forge our way ahead What of the villains that spent us bereft Repeatedly we tend to bury dead
But in these trying times we give tribute There’s sadness in the hearts of many left Retaliation’s War is not my suit What of the villains that spent us bereft
I pray for peace to come and settle now As we try hard to forge our way ahead The people of the Earth must blend somehow Repeatedly we tend to bury dead
O God of great and small please pierce our souls To issue comfort that remakes the world I’ll watch with gladness as goodness unfolds And witness smiles on faces that unfurl
Let’s throw away the harshness that does kill O God of great and small please pierce our souls And in these last days let the waters still I’ll watch with gladness as goodness unfolds
And in the end let generations stand To issue comfort that remakes the world Come join to make a chain of every hand And witness smiles on faces that unfurl