PAD Challenge Day 24: You Love Black but You Hate Blacks, and Semi-Formal
Two-for Tuesday
PAD Challenge Day 24:
Write a roundelay poem. And/or anti-form poem.
You Love Black but
You Hate Blacks
I.
they love
the blackness of nightly skies
along with
it shining stars and moonlights
drinking black
beans in black ties
black little
dresses and black skin tights
accessing black
code laws to maximize
black
nightmares for all dark shades in sight
II.
They’ll hug
coal for diamond revenue
They’ll
soothe a black oyster for a pearl over a black girl
They’ll harass
you when you walk through their white avenue
They’ll
black ball, brown nose, and lip curl
They’ll break
your black skin blue
They’ll sleep
on black sheets, not even toss or twirl.
III.
Love to shade
black
Love to control
black like a disease
Love to flip
black jack
Love to play
on black keys
Love to laugh
at black on black
Love to kill
black to black with ease
IV.
It’s true;
some of you do.
Hate, hate,
hate, and more hate
With no evidence
of why for the voodoo
Will society
ever get this race thing straight?
For the love
of God, black is human too;
not a just a
symbol or a hue.
Semi-Formal
Regalia and
I
are ready
for the
pomp and circumstance.
We are silky,
black velvet
determined
to sway with
swag
for the very
last
first time
of a lifetime.
D'Elegant One
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