It leaps off the page....

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I just thought this would be the proper forum for this post. These are a few poems that really struck me lately. Powerful stuff...

Norman Mailer

The Shortest Novel of Them All

At first she thought she could kill him in three days.
She did nearly. His heart proved nearly unequal to her compliments.
Then she thought it would take three weeks. But he survived.
So she revised her tables and calculated three months.
After three years, he was still alive. So they got married.
Now they've been married for thirty years. People speak warmly of them.

They are known as the best marriage in town.

It's just that their children keep dying.


Walt Whitman

Shut Not Your Doors

Shut not your doors to me proud libraries,
For that which was lacking on all your well-fill'd shelves, yet needed most, I bring,
Forth from the war emerging, a book I have made,
The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything,
A book separate, not link'd with the rest nor felt by the intellect,
But you ye untold latencies will thrill to every page.


Gil-Scott Heron

From Tomorrow

Those half moon's silly smiles
beneath my children's eyes
would not be there

had light ever touched

the retina of my brain

Had I, in 1640, burned
the ships that sailed us all
to this special branch of hell,

now would be no time to cry.

Had I, in 1840, followed Nat Turner
and field s everywhere,
scattering like wind-blown grains of sand,

now would be no time to cry.

Had I, in the 20th century,
followed Garvey or Malcolm,

King or Karenga,

Now would be no time to cry...

while white men walk on stars.

Assata Shakur

Culture

i must confess that waltzes
do not move me.
i have no sympathy
for symphonies.

i guess i hummed the Blues
too early,
and spent too many midnights
out wailing to the rain.


Mumia Abu-Jamal

To Those

nameless ones who came before

and are no more,

to those who leapt

to dark, salty depths,

to those who battled

against all odds,

to those who would give birth

to gods,

to those who would not yield--
To those who came before,
to those who are to come,

I dedicate this shield.

Anyways, I really liked these. Tell me what you think.

[Mind~$oul]

I love Assata Shakur's writing.

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Originally Posted by Mind~$oul

I love Assata Shakur's writing.

I know, right.lol She's incredible.

She says she's down for the dirt
for better or for worse
got my gun in her purse
case a brother gets searched
Got a mind like Assata
A body like Trina
A heart like my Momma
Baby tell me have ya seen her. --Dead Prez