| Author | Message | ||
     Mahoganyanais "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Mahoganyanais Post Number: 228 Registered: 01-2005 Rating: N/A |
My Man(child) for all our sons In the beginning you are a man full grown Black man savanna dust and heat rising up from obsidian skin your hunter’s eyes bely the prey you are you stare and I wonder, Will you-- compliment my fat ass? thank my mama for blessing me? Will you— notice my don’t-fuck-with-me fists clenched at my sides? smirk at the stride I have perfected for this block? --or will you look right through me? I cross the street and you are just a boy like Emmett Till was just a boy then I get closer and you are my son I inhale your milky breath and I know all over again why Emmett’s mama wanted the world to see If I touch your bruised-peach skin, Will you— cringe my hands as foreign to you as the birthright you refuse to claim? Will you— knock my hand away like your father knocked some sense into you like Ike knocked Tina? --or will you let me? I pass you by and a siren wails at my back like your mama wailed last week last month last year when you were protected and served right into your grave but the next time (“never again”) we mothers stood a half-moon of witnesses to your eagle spread (but never soaring) against the wall and you were safe (but not really) now there is no one here but you and me and I wonder, Will you— keep your feet firmly planted in quicksand? call Tomorrow an urban legend you refuse to fall for? Will you— die yet another death and forget to bear sons who look like you? --or will you make love to me? All the answers to all the questions are found --they say— in the promised land. | ||
| Kola_boof "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Kola_boof Post Number: 221 Registered: 02-2005 Rating: N/A |
I love that, Mahoghany. I'm going to print it out and frame it and put it on my sons' wall in their play room. Their DAD more than likely will read it each time he comes to visit. He loves poems like that. | ||
| Cynique "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Cynique Post Number: 2211 Registered: 01-2004 Rating: N/A |
I thought your poem was good, MAH | ||
| A_womon "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: A_womon Post Number: 1258 Registered: 05-2004 Rating: N/A |
Big Ups Mah! AWESOME! | ||
| Mahoganyanais "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Mahoganyanais Post Number: 234 Registered: 01-2005 Rating: N/A |
Thanks so much, ladies, for the positive feedback! I was "inspired" walking down the street a few weeks ago. I saw this man in front of the corner store, at a distance, but as I got closer, he looked like a boy, maybe 13-14 y.o., slight build. But then I got closer and he "became" a man again. By the time I was close enough to touch him, he was a boy again. I really thought I was cracking up; he really did CHANGE! Anyway, that moment stuck with me and I scribbled some stuff down as soon as I got home, and then forgot about it. Then last night, I got a little tipsy (not vodka, Kola; Framboise), dug out my scribbles, and wrote. | ||
| Yvettep "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Yvettep Post Number: 181 Registered: 01-2005 Rating: N/A |
Will you... call Tomorrow an urban legend you refuse to fall for? D-E-E-P. Watcha gonna do with this? | ||
| Sisg "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Sisg Post Number: 178 Registered: 01-2004 Rating: N/A |
Excellent Mah! It sticks with you! | ||
| Mahoganyanais "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Mahoganyanais Post Number: 239 Registered: 01-2005 Rating: N/A |
Thanks, Sisgal! Yvette: I don't know what I'm going to do with it. I often hold on to things (poems, stories, and essays) and eventually the right *home* for it makes itself known. ;-) | ||
| Abm "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Abm Post Number: 2459 Registered: 04-2004 Rating: N/A |
Mah, That's stunningly beautiful.  <<bowing!>> | ||
| Mahoganyanais "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Mahoganyanais Post Number: 256 Registered: 01-2005 Rating: N/A |
Thank you, ABM. | ||
| Lambd "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Lambd Post Number: 726 Registered: 01-2004 Rating: N/A |
Mahogany has blessed us once again with her brilliance! Is this Mahoganysun from years ago? So many of your poems are not archived. I hope you kept copies so that you can bless us again. I can't find about thirty of my poems from the original Poetree! The archives they said housed them is jacked up. Luckily I had hard copies of some of them. Keep writing. You are a master, just keep copies. | ||
| Mahoganyanais "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Mahoganyanais Post Number: 557 Registered: 01-2005 Rating: N/A |
Hey, Lambd... No, I'm not Mahoganysun. I'm fairly new around these parts. Thanks for the feedback on the poem! | ||
| Camille First Time Poster Username: Camille Post Number: 1 Registered: 06-2005 Rating: N/A |
All I could say when I read this was whoa. I had to print a copy for my fiance and future mother-in-law. This is the sort of thing they love. |
