Apologies To All The People In Lebanon (June Jordan Poems)
Dedicated to the 6o,ooo Palestinian men, women, and children who lived in Lebanon from 1948-1983.I didn't know and nobody told ...
Dedicated to the 6o,ooo Palestinian men, women, and children who lived in Lebanon from 1948-1983.I didn't know and nobody told ...
Beside my window day and night, Its tendrils reaching left and right, A morning glory grew; With blossoms covered, pink and white And deep, ...
The melody of autumn Is the only tune I know, And I sing it over and over Because it thrills me so; It stirs ...
Without knowing my number,enclosed by walls and borders,I walk around with a prisoner's moonand perpetual shadow chained to my ankle.Living ...
HE dwelt among "apartments let,"About five stories high;A man I thought that none would get,And very few would try.A boulder, ...
To every class we have a School assign'd,Rules for all ranks and food for every mind:Yet one there is, that ...
"My dream had never died or lived again.As in some mystic middle state I lay;Seeing I saw not, hearing not ...
Young Shechem all the night impatient lay;And sought with eager eyes the breaking day;With ardent longings waits the promis'd hour,And ...
In the spirit's solitary hoursIt is lovely to walk in the sunAlong the yellow walls of summer.Quietly whisper the steps ...
I'm delighted by the velocity of money as it whistles through the windows of Lower East SideDelighted by skyscrapers rising ...
557She hideth Her the last-And is the first, to rise-Her Night doth hardly recompenseThe Closing of Her eyes-She doth Her ...
Now I'll record my secret vision, impossible sight of the face of God: It was no dream, I lay broad ...
For Carl Solomon I I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves ...
The Butterfly's Assumption Gown In Chrysoprase Apartments hung This afternoon put on -- How condescending to descend And be of ...
She hideth Her the last -- And is the first, to rise -- Her Night doth hardly recompense The Closing ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
An apple arc'd toward Kleitos; whose great King wroth & of wine did study where his sword, sneaked away, might ...
On the fair green hills of Rio There grows a fearful stain: The poor who come to Rio And can't ...
My dream had never died or lived again. As in some mystic middle state I lay; Seeing I saw not, ...
Compelled by calamity's magnet They loiter and stare as if the house Burnt-out were theirs, or as if they thought ...
We were smoking some of this knockout weed when Operation Memory was announced. To his separate bed Each soldier went, ...
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