War & Politics – Page 22 – My husband's poetry

for Zakiah

Apr 30, 2020

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in Family, grandkids, Racial & Social justice, violence

This morning, I woke decided to lead by example decided to send my hoodie to Goodwill I don’t want my grandson shot and if he is, I don’t want some security officer to use a hoodie as a reason another young black boy lies dying in the street Maybe, he can say he thought a…

for a friend who got furloughed yesterday

Apr 16, 2020

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cfblack

in corporate America, covid, for someone else, friends, frustration, inflation money poverty, Kindness

For all the unemployed fathers and mothers who have worked hard all their lives who worked two jobs and a side hustle who paid their taxes who send their kids to public schools who use public parks who believed in the American dream For all the children whose parents are putting their lives on the…

This

Apr 11, 2020

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cfblack

in Belonging / Loneliness, covid, Racial & Social justice

This is for all the dead plants that died alone in empty offices because no one cared enough to take them home when they left to quarantine This is for all the chocolate bunnies and marshmallow peeps who will sit forlorn on a shelf in Walgreens because toilet paper is more important than Easter candy…

Listen

Mar 7, 2020

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cfblack

in Birds, flowers, Racial & Social justice, Rewriting a fairy tale myth or legend, singing, spiritual, trees, War & Politics, wind

“Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, None but ourselves can free our minds” from Redemption Song by Bob Marley Last night, you heard the wind talk among trees You heard vibrations given to the wind never die You heard old melodies that soothed a warrior king You heard his son sing descant to a shepherd boy…

Dreaming in My Daughter’s Upstairs Bedroom

Feb 29, 2020

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cfblack

in Family, history, Time, work

Last night, I walked old streets once vibrant I stood looking in abandoned factory windows saw faces dripping sweat and laughter a Cadillac slowly turned the corner windows down, no one inside it turned down an alley and was gone I looked back and the street was remade with shops and row houses folks walked…

Canticle of bones

Feb 22, 2020

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cfblack

in animals, Death & Afterlife, history, irony, nature, singing, wind

in the rain in a green field in homage of another time stands an abandoned house we know what kills a farm chases a family to the city but not what kills a whale that swims in a field of green ___ bleached bone corpse stripped of bark where children played swung on branches laughed…

a modest proposal

Feb 21, 2020

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cfblack

in Birds, corporate America, humor, sports

This morning I saw flocks of crows hanging out on equipment abandoned in a swamp and then I thought maybe they missed the flight for their yearly winter Caribbean vacation It was cold and rainy and then I thought wouldn’t it be nice if the folks who do genetic engineering bred GMO black crows with…

Front yards

Feb 14, 2020

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cfblack

in childhood, fear, for someone else, freedom, grief, sexism, violence

You want a house on the edge of town land enough for a garden, chickens and guinea hens You want a screened porch to keep mosquitoes at bay and a stately oak tree to day dream under You want a nice cafe and coffee shop to walk to an independent book store next to the…

Al’s Saturday Morning Guide To Not Become An Ignorant Fool

Feb 8, 2020

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cfblack

in irony, truth, War & Politics

Never ask a Bedouin how to paddle a canoe Never ask a Hawaiian how to ride a camel Never ask a taxi driver the shortest way to the airport Never ask a pack of thieves to convict a thief 2-8-20

Arsonist

Feb 6, 2020

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cfblack

in fire, history, irony

History is not for sure who designed Nero’s clothes what song he played on his fiddle if it was a top 40 hit or if he fiddled at all but they remember the stench of Rome burning History is not for sure about all of his infidelities or if he was incestuous who hung his…

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