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  • Time To Die
    Black brother, think you life so sweet
    That you would live at any price?
    13 lines
  • 'Ittle Touzle Head
    Cum, listen w'ile yore Unkel sings
    Erbout how low sweet chariot swings,
    33 lines
  • Zalka Peetruza
    (_Who Was Christened Lucy Jane_)
    She danced, near nude, to tom-tom beat,
    20 lines, 1 comment
  • Sprin' Fevah
    Dar's a lazy, sortah hazy
    Feelin' grips me, thoo an' thoo;
    14 lines
  • De Drum Majah
    He's struttin' sho ernuff,
    Wearin' a lady's muff
    38 lines
  • The Poet
    The poet sits and dreams and dreams;
    He scans his verse; he probes his themes.
    19 lines, 2 comments
  • Old Glory
    God's placid heavens mother you,
    His sunsets blend your bars,
    8 lines
  • A Recalled Prayer
    Sis Hannah May Liza, so Emphraim sayed,
    Stole out 'neaf a sycamo' tree an' prayed
    48 lines
  • Red Rose
    I plucked a rose, a red rose rare,
    I placed her on a throne
    18 lines
  • A Resolution
    Mah ruddah's brokin, an' mah sail
    Wen' ovah bode, in las' night's gale;
    18 lines
  • Songs And Smiles
    Well-meaning friends often ask,
    Am I not weary of my task,
    15 lines
  • True Fren
    You sez dat ole frens am de best.
    I begs yore pawden, deed I do,
    3 lines
  • To An Unhanged Judas
    Cannibalistic vulture,
    Grown fat upon your brother's blood,
    23 lines
  • Valuation
    No man can shape his destiny,
    Though ardent his desire,
    16 lines
  • Retribution
    Rent and bleeding,
    Upon her knees
    8 lines
  • Memories
    I am as fond of fun and jokes
    As other real red-blooded folks.
    19 lines
  • To A Bird
    Sweet singer, how I envy you,
    Faint, fleeting, speck 'gainst azure hue.
    5 lines
  • Roosevelt
    "Put out the light!"
    He had no need of man-made glow
    26 lines
  • Decreed
    (Matthew—2:15)
    Indirectly, out of Africa you came
    10 lines
  • A Brook
    Reflecting ragged
    Flecks of white,
    12 lines
  • Toil Created
    Dutiful, underpaid bearer of burden
    (Although as oxen your past roles were cast,
    8 lines
  • TO —
    Though many are the dreams I dream,
    They're born within a single theme.
    9 lines
  • Supplication
    (Dedicated to Cincinnati Branch, N. A. A. C. P., and sung to the air, "America")
    Dear Lord we come to Thee,
    32 lines
  • Frenship
    (To G. B. P.)
    I have filched a mite ob time
    18 lines
  • Opportunity
    The shackles rend, your hands are free,
    You need no longer humb'ly bow
    8 lines
  • Weddah
    It wuz cole, de snow dun drifted
    Hi' roun' 'bout de ole barn do';
    43 lines
  • Ease
    Oh! foolish one in quest of ease,
    Do you not know that ease on earth, for men,
    7 lines
  • Brother Mine
    Prejudice with venom smote every word and act;
    Snuffed was the light of knowledge from your view.
    28 lines
  • A. L. Imes
    Some men go beyond their way
    To advertise, in bold display,
    5 lines
  • Censored
    My Harvah rit me week fo' las',
    Dat is, dat's w'en I got it;
    25 lines
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