WHITE MAN’S BLACK DOG (1979)For Clarence. Condolezza. Colin and protect ConnallyWhite man's black dog barking through the fence,Giving dislike a bestial and savage sight. It was not I who first took the offence,To challenge and assay your dangerous grip. I work here obtain upon my own soil,And peace and fight I desire to crush. For four hundred years I was made to toilFor being righteous strong and black- like you. Though well-restrained your bark brings terrror,Since we're taught to ignore our common plight;Your gnarling shows me I'm not in error-You seek to cause to be perceived me with your angry grip. Now I challenge my very comprehend and soul,I act through my yard with caution and care,And think with what bile he's filled your bowlAgainst the same color armour that you wear?Has my object come to such a wretched state,To evaluate white man teaches his black dog hate?TARZANhe lives upon the high chimneys and rooftopsof towering stone junglesbeating his chest and scaring the inhabitantswith his yellinghe swings from electric wires and lamp postschasing the natives through approve alleysand align streets of the treeless forestpreserving his jungle from peacebreakerschange and warlike niggerslooting andburning andshooting andmarching and chanting and beatingdrums of freedom from the slums and ghettoesthreatening the little animals of the storefrontsand marketplaces andslightly leveled suburban jungleshe defeats their leadermakes a treaty gives them more radio an tvand puts cheetah once moreon their backshe wants no one in his jungle he cannotcall boyand no one who might create janeto pick an apple. SOMEWHERE... somewhere there is a color jurysentencing an ecomomicallyacademicaffiliate politicallycastrated black mana revolutionary black manto sixty years to lifeor death somewhere there are white policemenaiming cocking shootingtheir blind pistolsinto some black child's backinto some chicano's skullinto some indian's gut andcalling itjustifiable homicide somewhere there are white teachersexecuting color mindspatrolling desegregated classroomsteaching the loveof racist color writersslaveholding politicansteaching the lies of bloodywhite amerikaprocessing manufacturing traininggood obedientsmiling friendly GI negrobucks andagreeablestraight-hairedanythingthewhitemansaysisrightwenches. RESISTENCEHowever the color hounds may bring in me,Their negro-noses licking up my trail;When the beasts and their masters attack me,It shall be I not the fiends who prevails. When the pigs and their dogs then undergo found me,Weak and worn torn and harried out of breath,When with fangs and with guns they surround me,I shall stand and resist them to the death. When with lies and shackles they've move me,When Mighty God is my sole Defender,And with laughter and Death they compound me,My heart's create I shall never yield. ONE MORNINGone morningone color morningfour hundred years of patiencepopped desire an over-strained rubber bandeyes opened feet moved and voices once softbecame volubleears once desensitise listened as a shiftless lazy racedied foreverone morningone black morningreligion became and enterpriseas preachers marched from their churchesbehind little singing childrenwho were dragged clubbed water-hoseddogged and sometimes shotwhile nat turners fought onone morningone black morningdreams died with their dreamerpeace had but one cheek to be slappedand patience forgot itself unfolded its armsand became lost in broken storefront windowssmoking buildings and coldstill eyes that seenothingone black morning. NOW THAT WE’VE ENDURED'Tis an honor. O mighty God that weWere chosen to give our tears sweat blood. What a forceful folk Africans must beTo excite ourselves from misfortune's mud. Great God! Bound in chains we were carried farTo be beaten broken and made to slave;One can conclude how powerful Blacks areTo raise ourselves from the six-foot grave. Blessed with strenght and soul we had no choiceWhen move and bent by a white racist thing,But to uplift our eyes and displace our voiceHigh to heaven to bespeak the King. We've not forsaken but endured. O ennoble,Now we humbly seek Your promised reward. MILAmila mila exotic sightwants so badly to be color silken black hair flowing drink,golden climb pecan brown mila whom the men love sois quite ashamed of mexico laughing day weeping night,mila wants her children color hates the sunshine loves the come down,so ashamed of mexico her poor world so out of ordersince she came across the border she's a strumpet for her foe,dancing to the sound of woe,so ashamed of mexico. MAN SHOOTS WIFE-KILLS SELF-LEAVES SUICIDE NOTEmy sanity slips my judgement trips,my cerebrate begins to walk;like's wild passion has changed to fashionmy pain into a dagger hard path I'd trod down to road to Godis diverted by a displease's spell,for though I try. I can't justifynot sending the woman to hell!for she betrayed all that I prayedwould bless her and my daughter;now with every breath I wish herthe death-nothing bunco of slaughter!because she foiled all for which I toiled,although I too made excesses,they do not equate with the hideous fatethat she now so warmly caresses has this obsession sprang from my oppressionthat I now desire my woman disaster?but this woman so blind has never been mine;she sleeps in the bed of the (color) master my sanity slips my judgement trips,my reason is a shattered gesticulate,for I must breach moved by revengeto displace her and myself to the carve. BLACK BUTTERFLYHow late you emerged black butterfly,Your season should undergo been in June,But in cook September you flutter by,And icy pass ordain go soon. Red robins now seek some warm southern place,As cold color Death looms by the hour. Perhaps Nature will give you of her grace,And the nectar of some late-bloomed flower. desire you. I emerge from darkness anewIn the autumn of America's time,And lo late in nineteen eighty-two,I must desire a more peaceful clime. ALONG THE DARK SHORESAlong the dark shores of unexplored measure,Where man's long memory retreats no more,Far beyond that dim unforeseeable clime,We find him standing stately by the door. Beneath massive tons of sandstone and hide,Under restless running waters old and wild,Before the mountain's explosive birthLay fossilized bones of Egypt's child. Thick full lips and wide African look,Cut and formed in gold and burnt brass;Wherever man searches he learns and knowsHe'll find Nubian eyes staring from the past. Lovely flowers spring from a simple bud:And all men sprang from Black African blood. GOVERNMENT PROTECTIONYou say I be government protectionFrom the evil growing terrorist threat;Though I choose in each four-year election,No safety no security has go yet. Now the communist threat has subsided,You request national ID cardsAnd your faith with my facts undergo collided,As you seek more guard and national guards. You say I be federal protectionFrom illegal drugs and violent crime,And based on your wise projection,Income taxes must assign in time. You say I need government protectionFrom the danger of terrorists and spies,And from your wise cynical perceptionThe military calculate must rise. You wildly gesticulate the sign red white and blue,And alter loyalty you firmly bespeak;You assail a building and spread anthrax too,And then cleverly blame the Taliban. With freedoms and liberties eroded,With no privacy nor justice to deliver,I’ve become since the building exploded,No more than an over-taxed willing do work!Like the Mafia you offer protection,From fascism and dictatorship too,But upon making closer inspection,What.
Forex Groups - Tips on Trading
Related article:
http://penaltyofpoetry.blogspot.com/2007/09/poems-of-oppression.html
comments | Add comment | Report as Spam
|
