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Chris Hayden

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Posted on Wednesday, October 01, 2003 - 01:18 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

I want to share my latest poem, titled Interlude". It was written about a painting by St. Louis artist Solomon Thurman that has the same name.

Solomon (whose cousin was Emmitt Till) has just finished a cycle of paintings involving scenes of the past rural south--blacks in the cotton fields, in church, at home--Interlude is a large rendering of a black man and black womans' mouths, drawing close in a kiss--the background is cotton plants in bloom.

Interlude

21st Century Solomon
BlacknWise

Knew Inspiration
That bright Sunrise of the Mind

Spied on blank canvas of imagination

Cross Space and Time

Two souls kissing

Meditated
With brush and oilpaints illuminated

Interlude

Brown African lips kissed
Hot green fields cool and blissful
Black American tongues touched
White cash crop unplucked

Two captive hearts run as one
Free like snow melt
In Black belt sun

Paddyrollers in vain seek these runagates

Ancestors mine--yours
Born and bought for cotton rows
Bred to hew draw and carry
Marry shovels picks and hoes

In that stolen moment past
Did they know

Solomon Thurman
BlacknWise
Their 21st Century child

Would see Inspiration
The Mind's Sunrise

Their souls kissin cross Time and Space
Meditate

Kiss the blank canvas of his imagination
With fiery oilpaints
Brush with Truth
Illuminate

Their
Interlude
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Yvette

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Posted on Wednesday, October 01, 2003 - 01:31 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Chris,

This is beautiful! Thanks for sharing.
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Lambd

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Posted on Wednesday, October 01, 2003 - 02:11 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Def poetry, Hayden.

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