Excerpts from Mahogony Queen ~~Written during a layover in Chicago (2002)

from Pg. 7

........the boarders of Tanzania

past the flooded Ripon Falls

over boarders

between walls

to the never missed 

hiss

of the Nubian desert........

from Pg. 9 

.......fire drips wet orbs

and moistens the dry lands

creative hands,

not masons but molders of earth

unearth master's pieces

works of art

shelter woven by truth

freedom sketched and carved 

with care........

from Pg. 13

...we form a vakuntha planet

    we need no sun

no moon

        we are 

electricity

            we transcend 

skin......

from Pg 15

i am called to be

   rhythm and poetry

mending and weaving soul with soul

    creating one continuous

beat, beat

repeat the beat

I am rhythm and rhyme

   dancing and floating throughout time

a reminder of a harmony that we’ve known before

a reminder of a harmony that we’ve known before......

 

~ 4 Excerpts from "Mahogany Queen" - Micro-chapbook ~ Written during a layover in Chicago (2002)