Emotive expression through words, words that give flesh to deep, ethereal, and complex emotions. Instead of running away from these queer emotional constructs, this zone greets them as friends and converses with them in light of that friendship.
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BLACK LIKE ME
Quotes, reflections and inspirations during the time of the world's racial uprising and unrest.
PICS, POEMS, & PLANTS
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WHEN THE WORD EXHAUSTING JUST DOESN'T FEEL RIGHT, I GET PEN AND PAPER AND BEGIN TO WRITE. BLACK TAR ELEGY Tap tap tap. Keys move—now they’re still. Drizzling words, hollow, haggard, and shrill. Crestfallen, woe-begotten, it’s that time again, when paper and pen write—goodbye—to yet another black friend. Black tar babies born to black mothers, beaten and chained by friendly white “brothers”. To quell the pain, anguish, and sorrow, I’ll tell my tar babies the tale of tomorrow. For now a fake Yoel our stories overheard, and wrote our tar babies with his monstrous words. Black tar babies come into time and space. The minute they enter that’s when you give chase. Lock them in cages and mine them for powers. Parrot their phrases and subtract their hours. The giant bald eagle Narcissus, his name. Cursed now to worship at his own altar of shame. Hollow his heart and violent his collar, murdering tar babies for the almighty dollar. And yet it is you, my dying black ...
GOOD ANCESTOR These lips are theirs, They tell me live. This strong black nose, Powerful, massive. This angled jaw, Cuts like knife. If no you, For me no life. I wish I could, Just see your face. Offer thanks For this their race. I wonder what their word would be, Could their eyes today see me? To aft or bow would they go? And perish in that sea below? Or would their seed be cause enough, for peace in a Jesus from Lübek? The carrion call of treacherous ocean Or future cries of offsprings’ devotion? These the broken ones, Baptized in blood, Are good ancestors Watching above. by: Planted Black Prose
WON’T YOU SMILE? I like it when the muscles right above your chin, creep a creepy crawl and stretch into a grin. When baby flexions flex and pack a bag of mirth, voyaging to those dual orbs and in that place give birth; to children round the rim, in whom I take delight. Your humble acquiescence belies no hint of fright. Darling, won’t you smile? Your smile is a protection from blights that blight your soul, an ingenious deflection, balm to make you whole. What goodness you inherit when masking all your trials? Chin chin, head back, now ferret out a smile. Friend, won’t you smile? Only in your joy I promise I’m invested. I ask this all for your own sake, my innocence untested. My anger grows by increments, imperatives defied. My patience slowly ebbing when you refuse to smile. What know you of choices? I know what’s best for you. Controlling all the voices, you’ll do what I say to. You the stain on pristine station, wagons rolling west; the darkened spot bes...
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