This is the last day of National Poetry Month and I wanted to share a couple of the poems I wrote for the NaPoWriMo challenge this month:
Prosthetic Conscience
We are the abominations:
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And like a bomb in nations
We go off as we enter their spaces
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The sight of us
Blowing off their heads
Leaving them in critical
Ignorance
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They replace heads
With clouds in metal cages,
Find minds in pages of a man-made
Book wrapped around the bars
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Like babbling newborns barely knowing
The universe, let alone the world,
Let alone themselves, they scream smoke
Of fiery fear from their lungs:
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“You are the curse of Ham!
You are a witch; you must
Be silenced! You are the fire
and brimstone raining down
on Sodom and Gomorrah!”
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We are the aliens in our spaceship
Coming down to see the unbelievable –
Those who never explored
The space around them
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Pitying their smallness
The bodies without heads
Who refuse to see the magic
In our eyes.
Tribute to Angela Davis (cinquain)
Girl Black
Explore yourself
Halo hair spout wisdom
With fist rising like a fired
Rocket
Sherese Francis: Futuristically Ancient 