‘versees’ Archives
Noliwe By Leopold Sedar Senghor
The weakness of the heart is holly... Ah! You think that I never loved her My Negress fair with palmoil, slender as a plume Thighs of a starlet otter, of Kilimanjaro snow Breasts of mellow rice-fields, hills of acacias under the East Wind. Noliwe with her arms of boas, lips of the adder Noliwe, her eyes were constellations there is no need [...]
The Bridge of Beauty and Understanding written by Rene Wadlow
Only the bridge of Beauty will be strong enough for crossing from the bank of Darkness to the side of Light - Nicholas Roerich The United Nations General Assembly in resolution A/RES.62/90 has proclaimed the year 2010 as the International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures “to promote universal respect for, [...]
MAY OUR PEOPLE TRIUMPH By Patrice Emery Lumumba 1925-1961
Weep, O my black beloved brother deep buried in eternal, bestial night. O you, whose dust simooms and hurricanes have scattered all over the vast earth, You, by whose hands the pyramids were reared In memory of royal murderers, You, rounded up in raids; you, countless times defeated In all the battles ever won by brutal force; You, who were [...]
from: Nomad black Poet and his spirit….
By Onyenezi Chika Victor WHY DID WE DIE? To brave Biafra soldier. To veterans of a lost cause. to their souls.... The fallen soldier whimpered, “Who will justify our blood?” Lest we forget the gun, Artillery revisited: It sprouts in the verses of hatred. Used on the January of shame, Lasted till blood [...]
Back and Forth from Africa to Haiti to Gaza: Fidelity to Humanity By Jacques Depelchin
www.otabenga.org A poem linking Israel's December 2008 to January 2009 siege of Gaza to Haiti. First , not quite, but we have to start somewhere, There were the Arawaks, the Caribs and the Amerindians Then their land became known as Hispaniola, As Saint Domingue, as the economic jewel Of French overseas possessions Thanks to Africans [...]
