PAD Challenge Day 23: " A Free Black Man" and "Finely Confined"

PAD Challenge Day 23:

2 for Tuesday:

1)Write a free poem.

2)Write a not free poem.

A Free Black Man

I love a free black man.

I love a free black man

like the wind.

He ain’t got no fears.

He ain’t got no worries.

No unnecessary strings attached.

No ignorance beating down his back.

I love a free black man with:

a heart that beats for his roots,

lips glued to hymns and optimism,

and spoken words like Proverbs.

He can two-step, lean wit-it, and snap

black boy joy into the souls of blacks.

I love a free black man

that has nothing holding him up

and nothing holding him down.

And every time I come around,

he has on his crown.

Finely Confined

Can we take today off for us?

Task ourselves to each other;

Be whispering jailbirds

and lovebirds;

Be play-dates and play-mates;

I’ll clear out your mind

while you clear out mines.

We’ll bathe our melanin;

Take turns to dry and

butter up each other’s back;

Wrap ourselves in seductive kisses;

Create a warm and hearty

private breakfast in bed;

Tweet our names like love songs;

Hibernate between each other’s legs.

You can even hide out in my bay area,

christen yourself in my holy waters;

Drink and eat as much as you like

Until you make me gasp as I grasp

to reel you in real good while

you suck poetry off my tongue

to the baseline of our hips.

Never-minding the seconds,

the minutes between the

shifts of your mass thunder

that lightens me up and

send turbulent tremblers

throughout my body

every time, every damn

time that you bond

and finely confine in me

D'ElegantOne

After Glow by Alonzo Adams