melody
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The Perfect Piece
Repost for World Poetry Day. To the lyrically talented the brave who do not stop at sing-song and music but poems whose words themselves are like melody like the rhythm of rocking chairs like serenity like soldiers stomping truth into the torso of the earth like Assata’s like revolution like Maya Angelou’s and Ntozake’s… Continue reading
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Her Song
Her fingers girdle themselves around the microphone like blessings wrapped in silk prepared to sing poetic melodies in front an audience too deaf to hear the angels playing on the strings of her vocal cords to witness the flapping of wings against their skin too blind to see the messages dancing on her collar bone… Continue reading
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