Poetry
Poetry is the hardest and most fulfilling type of writing
that I know. As I put this page together I discovered that
most of the poems chosen are based on either religious or
racial themes. I expect this is because I studied literature
at City College in Harlem, NY, lived in Zambia and Ecuador,
and spent lots of time reading the Bible and religious works.
I hope you enjoy these poems.
Lazarus was raised from the dead, but how did his friends
feel when they helped an 'unclean' corpse out of his grave
clothes?
From reading The Autobiography of Malcolm X, I learned
that Malcolm X was assassinated the same week I was born,
and that he was one of the greatest men of the 20th
Century.
This is a psalm I wrote. It is a noisy, clamoring prayer
filled with sounds and images, and hope.
A busy woman I knew in England inspired the words and the
pace of this poem when she said, I'm never home long enough
to finish a bloody quart of milk!
One day my office exploded in debate over a volatile race
issue that was in the news. My contribution a to post
reworking of Williams' famous poem, The Red Whelbarrow.
