I was searching for an
Avenue...
A lane I could live on...
Some grain I could bid on...
Help balance this world's
Protons neutrons and electrons... a
Place with a vegetable garden and a
Library where words, scribbled on
Love's parchment paper could feel at
Home...
I'd been writing
Letters to myself
Postcards from my soul
Mailed from my ancestors sequestered in other realms
Finer and almost perpendicular to this one
Spirits communing nightly
Poetry
Falling like rain
Eyelids closed, my body slept
On this parched bed of earth
Dreaming and coaxing new things to
Grow and sprout and blossom
Climb the steeple
Ring the bell
Water the soil
Cultivate and propagate and
Feed the people cause
People need people
In this memory
I walk along main street
With its church and courthouse
Sneak behind alley side street
Exposed rear ends... buildings
Lifting skirts and dropping trousers
To display their garbage cans banging
Filling the atmosphere with misery, stench and reality tv
I jump the fence and skip
Downtown on the D train
Crowded, loud, and noisy
Sponsoring banks and bars and drinks
Intoxicating
Intoxicated
I stumble back uptown
To parks and penthouses
I woke up
In your drive way
One rainy day
You opened the gate
Lined with ancient trees
Skin wrinkled like bark and trunks
Wide enough to fit a house
Wooden dresser and comb
I liked the scent of your home
Purple lilac and lace
God bless this place
Surrounded by
Honey shrubs and hickory buds
In the flower garden
I sipped Ajiri tea
Leaves hand-picked
Farmers in Kenya
There I underwent a transformation
Wisdom of the ages
Wisdom of the sages
Huddled together
Gathered round the center
Mystic call of the drum
Spark Fire Wood Metal Earth Water
Sacred daughter
Radiant sun
Author
Love
Lift us higher... alter
Light warm form
1 circle
One globe
Limbs hugging one another
Giving strength to aid each other
Divine harmony
Songs sailing into the night
Meditating under the stars
Mars Jupiter and the
Moon full
Teacher preacher
Poetess prophet
Storyteller
Wisdom dweller
Healer
Seeing the world... not as she is
But as he could be
They them us
Together
One hand clasping another
Hand assisting another
Hand on another hand
Washing dishes in the sink
Weathering yet another storm
Together
Moments are forever
My channel hope found
I tuned in daily
Your radio station nourished
Marquee words reading
"What you get, give..."
Blinking on and off and on
Miss Maya
You taught me
Reach down reach up reach out
Stretch and be your best self
No need to change clothes to go down the road...
Come as you are and your family will love you
Thank you
Dr. Maya Angelou
Phenomenal woman
Caged bird singing loudly
Proudly
Still I rise
I pray today
With grace and hope
I too, until the day I return to clay will say
Simply
Good morning