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My Love…
I looked for you today.
Looked for your brown eyes,
mahogany skin and immaculate eyes.
But I only caught a glimpse, a glimmer of you in passing.
A game of cat and mouse.
You scurried just out of sight,
but not out of my mind.
I looked for you today.
Looked for your chocolate diamond eyes,
velvety skin and brillant grin.
But I only caught a whisp, a breeze of you in passing.
A game of hide and seek.
You ducked just out of sight,
but not out of my mind.
I looked for you today.
Waiting for the day when you want to be found,
and your eyes, skin, smile and heart will be mine.
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I had to make this because I was planning to write an extended rant about the long-standing obsession with dehumanizing, de-feminizing, disrespecting, marginalizing and silencing Black women, but I honestly don’t know what I can add to the discussion at this point. Re-blog if you adore Black Women.
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Forgiving
Needing kneading,
dough moves under my hand;
a newly formed breast.
Soft and supple—malleable.
Pine nuts nipple up,
yearning to be touched.
I want it—hunger for it.
I can’t bite it yet,
too underdeveloped, too new.
Coco de mer
Coco de mer
Some say
it is the coco de mer
that represents the yab-yum.
Why else the glistening
shape of the birth canal
of a woman in heat
wash upon the island shores?
Why else the fruit
a double coconut of sorts
reach the sailor
in utter starvation
for the taught and luscious
disembodied buttocks?
D.Cooper 04/29/11
Things Heard…
“If I’m gonna be a needle in a haystack, Imma be the needle that pokes the shit out of you!” —J. Ivy
“N****, mouse, why you yelling?!” —A. Cooper
Food For Thought
Sent to me from my father:
12 Things The Negro Must Do For Himself
by Nannie Helen Burroughs
(Circa Early 1900’s)
1. The Negro Must Learn To Put First Things First.. The First Things Are: Education; Development of Character Traits; A Trade and Home Ownership.
The Negro puts too much of his earning in clothes, in food, in show and in having what he calls ‘a good time.’ The Dr. Kelly Miller said, ‘The Negro buys what he WANTS and begs for what he needs.’
2. The Negro Must Stop Expecting God and White Folk To Do For Him What He Can Do For Himself.
It is the ‘Divine Plan’ that the strong shall help the weak, but even God does not do for man what man can do for himself. The Negro will have to do exactly what Jesus told the man (in John 5:8) to do—Carry his own load—‘Take up your bed and walk.’
3. The Negro Must Keep Himself, His Children And His Home Clean And Make The Surroundings In Which He Lives Comfortable and Attractive.
He must learn to ‘run his community up’—not down. We can segregate by law, we integrate only by living. Civilization is not a matter of race, it is a matter of standards. Believe it or not—some day, some race is going to outdo the Anglo-Saxon, completely. It can be the Negro race, if the Negro gets sense enough. Civilization goes up and down that way.
4. The Negro Must Learn To Dress More Appropriately For Work And For Leisure.
Knowing what to wear—how to wear it—when to wear it and where to wear it, are earmarks of common sense, culture and also an index to character.
5. The Negro Must Make His Religion An Everyday Practice And Not Just A Sunday-Go-To Meeting Emotional Affair.
6. The Negro Must Highly Resolve To Wipe Out Mass Ignorance.
The leaders of the race must teach and inspire the masses to become eager and determined to improve mentally, morally and spiritually, and to meet the basic requirements of good citizenship. We should initiate an intensive literacy campaign in America , as well as in Africa . Ignorance—is a millstone about the neck of the race. It is democracy’s greatest burden. Social integration is a relationship attained as a result of the cultivation of kindred social ideals, interests and standards. It is a blending process that requires time, understanding and kindred purposes to achieve.. Likes alone and not laws can do it.
7. The Negro Must Stop Charging His Failures Up To His ‘Color’ And To White People’s Attitude.
The truth of the matter is that good service and conduct will make senseless race prejudice fade like mist before the rising sun. God never intended that a man’s color shall be anything other than a badge of distinction. It is high time that all races were earning that fact. The Negro must first QUALIFY for whatever position he wants. Purpose, initiative, ingenuity and industry are the keys that all men use to get what they want. The Negro will have to do the same. He must make himself a workman who is too skilled not to be wanted, and too DEPENDABLE not to be on the job, according to promise or plan. He will never become a vital factor in industry until he learns to put into his work the vitalizing force of initiative, skill and dependability. He has gone ‘RIGHTS’ mad and ‘DUTY’ dumb.
8. The Negro Must Overcome His Bad Job Habits.
He must make a brand new reputation for himself in the world of labor. His bad job habits are absenteeism, funerals to attend, or a little business to look after. The Negro runs an off and on business. He also has a bad reputation for co nduct on the job—such as petty quarreling with other help, incessant loud talking about nothing; loafing, carelessness, due to lack of job pride; insolence, gum chewing and—too often—liquor drinking. Just plain bad job habits!
9. He Must Improve His Conduct In Public Places.
Taken as a whole, he is entirely too loud and too ill-mannered. There is much talk about wiping out racial segregation and also much talk about achieving integration. Segregation is a physical arrangement by which people are separated in various services. It is definitely up to the Negro to wipe out the apparent justification or excuse for segregation. The only effective way to do it is to clean up and keep clean. By practice, cleanliness will become a habit and habit becomes character.
10. The Negro Must Learn How To Operate Business For People—Not For Negro People, Only.
To do business, he will have to remove all typical ‘earmarks,’ business principles; measure up to accepted standards and meet stimulating competition, graciously—in fact, he must learn to welcome competition.
11. The Average So-Called Educated Negro Will Have To Come Down Out Of The Air. He Is Too Inflated Over Nothing. He Needs An Experience Similar To The One That Ezekiel Had—(Ezekiel 3:14-19). And He Must Do What Ezekiel Did
Otherwise, through indifference, as to the plight of the masses, the Negro, who thinks that he has escaped, will lose his own soul. It will do all leaders good to read Hebrews 13:3, and the first Thirty-seven Chapters of Ezekiel. A race transformation itself through its own leaders and its sensible ‘common people.’ A race rises on its own wings, or is held down by its own weight. True leaders are never ‘things apart from the people.’ They are the masses. They simply got to the front ahead of them. Their only business at the front is to inspire to masses by hard work and noble example and challenge them to ‘Come on!’ Dante stated a fact when he said, ‘Show the people the light and they will find the way!’ There must arise within the Negro race a leadership that is not out hunting bargains for itself. A noble example is found in the men and women of the Negro race, who, in the early days, laid down their lives for the people. Their invaluable contributions have not been appraised by the ‘latter-day leaders.’ In many cases, their names would never be recorded, among the unsung heroes of the world, but for the fact that white friends have written them there.
‘Lord, God of Hosts, Be with us yet.’
The Negro of today does not realize that, but, for these exhibits A’s, that certainly show the innate possibilities of members of their own race, white people would not have been moved to make such princely investments in lives and money, as they have made, for the establishment of schools and for the on-going of the race.
12. The Negro Must Stop Forgetting His Friends. ’Remember.’
Read Deuteronomy 24:18. Deuteronomy rings the big bell of gratitude. Why? Because an ingrate is an abomination in the sight of God. God is constantly telling us that ‘I the Lord thy God delivered you’—through human instrumentalities. The American Negro has had and still has friends—in the North and in the South. These friends not only pray, speak, write, influence others, but make unbelievable, unpublished sacrifices and contributions for the advancement of the race—for their brothers in bonds. The noblest thing that the Negro can do is to so live and labor that these benefactors will not have given in vain. The Negro must make his heart warm with gratitude, his lips sweet with thanks and his heart and mind resolute with purpose to justify the sacrifices and stand on his feet and go forward—‘God is no respector of persons. In every nation, he that feareth him and worketh righteousness is’ sure to win out. Get to work! That’s the answer to everything that hu rts us. We talk to o much about nothing instead of redeeming the time by working.
R-E-M-E-M-B-E-R
In spite of race prejudice, America is brim full of opportunities. Go after them!
And, this was written in the early 1900’s! The more things change the more they stay the same.
After Mexico…
So I just got back from Mexico and my sister and I realized something…It seems much cooler to be Black in other countries outside of the United States. Intriguing isn’t it?
En el espejo de la luna: The Muse
I look all around searching for you,
kissing princeless frogs, lifting boulders
and I can’t find you.
I scour the pages clawing for your flesh
But you are not there.
Where are you?
I cannot write the songs of the grass
Or the triumphant sun without you.
Your essence is essential.
I look to you for my purpose
My meaning and yet you run away…
away…
And so I must stop writing the hieroglyphics that depict your soul
and let the ink in my pen dry.
Good-bye.
