Africa
Africa
Seed of humanity.
Riches of the world,
stolen away.
Cultures untold and
scattered like wind.
Precious gems and souls mined and
ground to dust.
Earths perfect portrait, then;
darkened canvas.
Pride invaded.
Bones broken and feeble.
Abandoned puzzle pieces.
Baby born anew; but
lost from Mother.
Tries to walk.
Crawls through the dust.
Take our hand.10-15-2009
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If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) American poet.
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| Title | Comments | Submitted |
| The Poet | 0 | 11/18/2014 |
| many lives | 0 | 06/12/2014 |
| naked in front of the moon | 0 | 06/11/2014 |
| Pity the bum | 2 | 06/09/2014 |
| A Poem | 1 | 06/07/2014 |
| what - green snow? | 1 | 05/30/2014 |
| cowboys of new york | 0 | 05/28/2014 |
| A Night at the Movies | 1 | 05/21/2014 |
| The Case of the Missing Moustache | 0 | 05/21/2014 |
| a simple man | 0 | 05/16/2014 |
| The Perfect Banana | 0 | 05/10/2014 |
| to cute to let go | 7 | 09/10/2009 |
| don't take me to a coktail party | 6 | 09/09/2009 |
| Real War | 6 | 09/09/2009 |
| naked in front of the moon | 5 | 09/09/2009 |
| the 4th of war | 1 | 09/08/2009 |
| cliff's elbow | 3 | 09/08/2009 |
| conversation with the moon | 11 | 09/02/2009 |
| the world | 6 | 09/02/2009 |
| three short poems about nothing | 2 | 09/02/2009 |
| silence | 13 | 08/31/2009 |
| Keeping a Happy Mind is Like Walking a Tight Rope | 6 | 08/31/2009 |
| im tired | 2 | 08/31/2009 |
| Big Foot Discovered | 1 | 08/31/2009 |
| the living female form | 6 | 08/30/2009 |
| The Sink | 0 | 08/30/2009 |
| Safe | 0 | 08/30/2009 |
| the run-away | 3 | 08/30/2009 |
| Nothing | 0 | 08/30/2009 |
| Orders for Heaven | 0 | 08/30/2009 |
| Lobster Bibs | 0 | 08/30/2009 |
| kerouac’s cave | 6 | 08/29/2009 |
| My Two Feet | 3 | 08/29/2009 |
| My Two Feet | 0 | 08/29/2009 |
| i i i | 9 | 08/15/2009 |
| Jupiter Sky | 5 | 08/12/2009 |
| acceptable death count ? | 3 | 08/11/2009 |
| screaming signs | 3 | 08/11/2009 |
| East End | 2 | 08/11/2009 |
| Wardrobe | 2 | 08/10/2009 |
| Surfing | 1 | 08/10/2009 |
| handcuffed | 7 | 08/08/2009 |
| dedication in the sun | 2 | 08/08/2009 |
| asylum alley | 7 | 08/08/2009 |
| Holding Hands | 5 | 08/07/2009 |
| Art | 2 | 08/05/2009 |
| Stuck in the 60's | 5 | 07/16/2009 |
| Jack is dead | 3 | 07/15/2009 |
| poetry hangover | 7 | 07/15/2009 |
| shut eye therapy | 3 | 07/15/2009 |
| underbelly - don't look | 1 | 07/14/2009 |
| shuv your oil | 0 | 07/14/2009 |
| The Marlin's Eye | 2 | 07/13/2009 |
| Shopping mall on a monday afternoon | 0 | 07/13/2009 |
| a green wagon | 3 | 07/12/2009 |
| naked water | 3 | 07/12/2009 |
| the psych-cottage | 5 | 07/12/2009 |
| to hell with the news | 1 | 07/12/2009 |
| for a variety or reasons | 2 | 07/11/2009 |
| my wife scolds me | 4 | 07/10/2009 |
| Nakedness | 1 | 07/09/2009 |
| loss | 0 | 07/09/2009 |
| me and my key board | 0 | 07/09/2009 |
| hows bizness ? | 0 | 07/09/2009 |
| Powerless | 0 | 07/09/2009 |
| hair cut | 0 | 07/08/2009 |
| normal | 0 | 07/08/2009 |
| sleeping with the sun | 0 | 07/07/2009 |
| too many ways | 4 | 07/05/2009 |
| The Gold Watch | 3 | 07/04/2009 |
| headless turtles | 4 | 07/03/2009 |
| headless turtles | 2 | 07/03/2009 |
| Faces in Coffins | 0 | 07/02/2009 |
| dry dog food | 0 | 07/02/2009 |
| do | 0 | 07/02/2009 |
| change | 2 | 07/02/2009 |
| Country | 0 | 07/02/2009 |
| Morning | 0 | 07/02/2009 |
| winter | 1 | 07/02/2009 |
| The Pump | 0 | 07/02/2009 |
| a burned little girl | 2 | 07/01/2009 |
| Florida | 0 | 07/01/2009 |
| Time and 2 other Poems | 0 | 07/01/2009 |
| Three Poems | 0 | 07/01/2009 |
| Electric Night | 3 | 06/30/2009 |
| NASCAR | 0 | 06/30/2009 |
| hair harmony | 2 | 06/29/2009 |
| YMCA Bowery | 3 | 06/28/2009 |
| rainbow over the east side | 11 | 06/28/2009 |
| no mo woiken | 20 | 06/28/2009 |
| Slainte | 5 | 06/28/2009 |
| Celebrity Death | 28 | 06/27/2009 |
| Manhattan Snow | 14 | 06/27/2009 |
| cement shoes | 14 | 06/25/2009 |
| Hard Core | 22 | 07/16/2009 |
| Africa | 13 | 06/22/2009 |
| hard | 10 | 06/21/2009 |
| not ashaned to admit | 25 | 06/21/2009 |
| rank | 7 | 06/20/2009 |
| Surfing | 14 | 06/20/2009 |
| War of the Seasons | 12 | 06/20/2009 |
| fog | 14 | 06/13/2009 |
| nothing | 5 | 06/08/2009 |
| education and defense of newspapers | 12 | 06/07/2009 |
| excercise | 9 | 06/05/2009 |
| Little | 30 | 06/04/2009 |
| dog n lights | 19 | 06/04/2009 |
| Casino | 28 | 07/09/2009 |
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