Showing posts with label MLK. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MLK. Show all posts
Sunday, July 14, 2024

JULY NIGHT AFTER THE SHOT AT TRUMP

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by Tricia Knoll I open a fortune cookie with my take-out  egg fu young from Men at Wok. No fortune.    Fewer fireflies than last week light ...
Tuesday, August 01, 2023

TOO LATE FOR ROSES

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by Gifford Savage If Sinéad was here she would call out the fakery,  false flattery, fickle bleeding-heart eulogies. See straight through th...
Wednesday, January 20, 2021

JANUARY 20, 2021 / DATE POEM

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by  Ethan Thayumanavan Born November 20, 1942. Inaugurated on January 20, 2021.   Born June 14, 1946. Inaugurated on January 20, 2017.   Rub...
Monday, February 11, 2019

WHEN I WAS A CHILD, I SPOKE LIKE A CHILD . . .

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by Marsha Owens When did he have an epiphany? she asked unclear about how one is racist and then is not. I know how life meanders...
Saturday, June 03, 2017

WISDOM TAKES A HOLIDAY

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On T***p’s Withdrawal from the Climate Agreement by Jon Wesick Lincoln plants cotton on the White House lawn. Rachel Carson sprays ...
Saturday, October 17, 2015

3/5 OF ALL OTHER BEATS AND RHYTHMS: 2006 TO 2015

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by Elbert Tavon Briggs Black Line-Carved Djembe Drum The beats make me think The drums keep beating That same Ole beat ag...
Saturday, June 27, 2015

IMAGINING ETHEL LANCE

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by Carl Boon  Najee Washington holds a photo of her grandmother Ethel Lance, one of the nine people killed in Wednesday's shooting...