PAD Challenge Day 1 (Two-for-Tuesday): "Best of Times" and “Worst of Times”.
PAD Challenge Day 1 (Two-for-Tuesday): Write a "Best of Times" poem, and/or write a “Worst of Times”.
Best of times
Growing up
Saturdays were golden times
Teena Marie was square biz
And mom’s hotcakes were
the hottest to melt Country Crock butter
Confirmation of my adolescence transformation
Something smaller can make
something large and fluffy a delight
Simple enhancements without too much alteration
I, too, can be butter
To a good ole fashioned world
A good source of energy
Smooth enough to activate
the brilliance off the top of my head
Rich enough to add more flavor to history
Be essential to the vision my ancestors left for me to see
That a little drizzle added to the best of both worlds
never really could hurt anybody
Worst of Times
Could it be found at
the Door of No Return?
A forced, freedom-less ride
along one of the 36,000 voyages,
To create the greatest Americas’ horror film?
Could it be the system itself?
The core of dehumanization,
the becoming of property
status to white men.
A milk factory and maid of honor
to white women and her children.
Maybe it was the sun
burning the black off the
backs of my people.
Or the cotton burs,
pricking and scratching
their fingers
dying to scream
freedom, justice and liberty
down the halls of plantations
where human rights were just
as silent as the culture they killed too.
D'ElegantOne
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