All Blog Posts Tagged 'poetry' (73)

The Perfect Man

 Ladies please don’t be jealous,

but I can’t contain my joy.

I had to tell somebody.

I fell in love with the perfect boy.

You laugh and say I’m foolish.

No man like that exists.

I tell you that you’re wrong,

you’ve never met a man like this.

He worships the ground I walk on,

and he knows me inside and out.

He tells me that I’m beautiful

at times when I look my worse.

When I cry,…

A Day In The Life

 © Gene Cartwright

Palm…

GREETINGS: Words of William S .Peters Sr. aka just Bill :"As we all are aware, World Healing and World Peace is a dynamic that affects every single Human Being on this Planet. At Inner Child we have initiated this effort to not only celebrate Poetry, but to elevate our Global Consciousness. Our hopes and focus through this Poetry Contest is to etch into the annals of History a…

GREETINGS: Words of William S .Peters Sr. aka just Bill :"As we all are aware, World Healing and World Peace is a dynamic that affects every single Human Being on this Planet. At Inner Child we have initiated this effort to not only celebrate Poetry, but to elevate our Global Consciousness. Our hopes and focus through this Poetry Contest is to etch into the annals of History a…

phati'tude Literary Magazine (www.phatitude.org) announces the launch of “Real Poetry, Real Talk," a hot new reading series to be held at the landmark Bowery Poetry Club (http://www.bowerypoetry.com/#Event/101757) in New York City. Set to kick-off on Thursday, May 12, 2011 as a quarterly event, "Real Poetry, Real Talk" was…

At all times I am yours,

for all time you are mines.

The potent glue that seals us;

we are bound by time.

Lost in the moments,

the seconds fly by,

But the memories that exist

are endless, if only in our minds.

Husbands chained to their wives

gladly awaiting death to depart.

Parents attached to their children,

invisible strings tug at their hearts.

But our love is not held

together by vows or by…

phati’tude Literary Magazine is hosting its 1st Annual African American Literary Festival in celebration of Black History Month. The event is being held at the Queens Library’s Langston Hughes Community Library &…

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phati’tude Literary Magazine (PLM), a multicultural literary publication, announced today a call for submissions for their upcoming African American Winter 2010-11 Issue, “Celebrating Black History Through Literature: From the Harlem Renaissance Movement to Today.” The African American Issue will celebrate the literary achievements of the Contemporary Poetry and Literature; Harlem Renaissance; Black Arts Movement; Children's…

It Ain't Just The Size

By M. G. Hardie

You thought they were intelligent because they had a degree,

Thought they were nice, well groomed and elegant

Because that's all they let you see

It never occured to the trusting mind

The dirt and foul odors facades leave behind

What you see and hear ain't always so

There's a heap that sees and a damn few that know

The man that will break your heart is always kind,

You'll never know the carnage he left…

I think of Ellison not being seen

And the agony of Huges' deferred dream

I muse David Walker's appeal

I think of Elizabeth's unconscionable school days

Plessy's trolley ride ordeal

The churches that were maliciously set ablaze.

Billie's bitter crop

Miles and Satchmo

The Rosewood nightmare that wouldn't stop

The cottonseed they had to sow.

They helped me to understand

And gave me a nutritious place to…

The sun had vanished completely. And with it -- all Catholicism.…

I am pleased to announce TAKING A STEP FORWARD: Writing Our Way to Recovery, an anthology consisting of writings from the men and women of A Step Forward, Inc. The anthology is the final product of the Life Lessons: Writing for A Purpose workshop series that I blogged about on this…