February 2012
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Black Radio is Amazing.
Love & Happiness.
We are not come to wage a strife With swords upon this hill, It is not wise to waste the life Against a stubborn will. Yet would we die as some have done. Beating a way for the rising sun.
Arna Bontemps, The Day-Breakers.
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Pastourelle.
Walk this mile in silence —-
Let no sound intrude
Upon the vibrant stillness
Of this solitude!
Let no thought be spoken
Nor syllable be heard
Lest the spell be broken
By the thunder of a word!
Here, such matchless wonder is
As might tear apart —-
Should the lip give tone
To the fullness of the heart…!
Donald Jeffrey Hayes, Pastourelle.
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Sympathy.
I know what the caged bird feels, alas! When the sun is bright on the upland slopes; When the wind stirs soft through the springing grass, And the river flows like a stream of glass; When the first bird sings and the first bud opes, And the faint perfume from its chalice steals— I know what the caged bird feels! I know why the caged bird beats his wing Till its blood is red on the...
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When I Think About Myself.
“When I think about myself, I almost laugh myself to death, My life has been one great big joke, A dance that’s walked A song that’s spoke I laugh so hard I almost choke, When I think about myself.
Sixty years in these folks’ world The child I works for calls me girl, I say “Yes Ma’am” for working’s sake Too proud to bend, Too poor to...
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