Art Projects

These collaborative poems were created as apart of the (S.O.S.)Saving Our Stories Project with generous support of The Conrad Prebys Foundation and Poets & Writers in celebration of National Poetry Month

 

Culture: Poem #1

(Inspired by Gloria James)

Just wonderful poems just touch my heart

You are your insight

The N word is used in a degrading tone of hate not love

N word was not always used negative, sometimes in my day

But,

What comes around goes around

Someone you can love and feel no pain

My poetry is me

You are the best you can be 

I am gods love too

Evaluate the treasures of the soul

Nevermore are you to cruel to love

My first word was dada 

 

Community: Poem #2

(Inspired by Johnnierenee Nia Nelson)

Just wonderful poems just touch my heart

You are your insight

The N word is used in a degrading tone of hate not love

N word was not always used negative, sometimes in my day

But,

What comes around goes around

Someone you can love and feel no pain

My poetry is me

You are the best you can be 

I am gods love too

Evaluate the treasures of the soul

Nevermore are you to cruel to love

My first word was dada 

 

Consciousness: Poem #3

(Inspired by Eileen Carole)

The word is power & Whatever I say

I can’t live it, I can’t breathe T

They have never tried to survive without us and they not gonna start trying now.

Clarity leads to the light.

My muse is in my soul

What my heart feels

We both share soul{s}

Victorious

Ponder on the patterns of life

Making life’s pain bearable, a poem is in your heart

How black do I have to be?

Where feelings, words, pour heartfelt pain with same heart poems Colorful, juicy red American dream walking blackward

Matter of fact, this black enough.

A family of black poems