Tag: black heritage

• On the Pulse of the Morning by Maya Angelou

  

  On the Pulse of Morning by Maya Angelou (1928-2014) A Rock, A River, A Tree Hosts to species long since departed, Marked the mastodon, The dinosaur, who left dried tokens Of their sojourn here On our planet floor, Any broad alarm of their hastening doom Is lost in the gloom of dust and ages. But…

  02/23/2023 7:37 pm

  black heritage, home, love, lovingkindness, maya angelou, nature, poetry, poets, unity

• Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

  

  One of my favorite novelists, a book that often comes to mind as greatly lyrical and a full, philosophical story, Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison, my reflective review: The most moving novel I’ve read this year in 2022, and the most recent one I’ve added to my own home library. Song of Solomon (1977)…

  02/23/2023 7:06 pm

  birthdays, black heritage, book reflection, book review, my home library, my photography, novels, philosophy, toni morrison

• Like the Japanese cherry blossoms wedded to the soil’s palm by Luther Hughes

  by Luther Hughes Like the Japanese cherry blossoms wedded to the soil’s palm planted in front of the train station; or the yellow-black dance of the tiger swallowtail’s wings as it flees; or the echoes that follow after I thunder loud against the kitchen cabinets; or the summer fire hitched to the air we breathe—the…

  08/18/2022 10:22 am

  21st century, black heritage, heavenly, home, love, luther hughes, nature, poetry, poets, silence, soulmates, unity