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
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