BLACK CHILD

[caption id="attachment_9177" align="aligncenter" width="422"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Black Child][/caption]O child of endless potentials farther than the horizon Let the iron-cap covering you thoughts fly away like a hopeless hawk Into the lifeless...

ROUGH DIAMOND

[caption id="attachment_7023" align="aligncenter" width="414"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Rough Diamond][/caption]Charcoal! I hear them call me. But unlike the coal, I’ve got beauty within. Black, that’s just the color of my skin. Cut me...

I FEEL NO SHAME

[caption id="attachment_5589" align="aligncenter" width="344"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [I Feel No Shame][/caption]Why have you shut your eyes against your old culture? Does my iro and buba not do me well than your ‘mini-gown’?...

DARK GIRLS

[caption id="attachment_5495" align="aligncenter" width="382"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Dark Girls][/caption]Bureaucracy of greedy county men Slaves of power Freedom of pain Shameful dark girls Resent the power of their language Discriminate the choices of...

I AM ME

[caption id="attachment_5166" align="aligncenter" width="395"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [I Am Me][/caption]As the tail of my pen kisses the face of my note, Let my words be published, even in the heavens. I am...