Showing posts with label Sam Greenlee. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sam Greenlee. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

my favorite poem



BLUES FOR AN AFRICAN PRINCESS


Sad-eyed Ghanaian girl
how you know so much
so soon?
Dealing with the world
with gentle persistence.
Teaching me while you
act like you learnin.
Looking at me out of 
ancient African eyes
deep enough
to drown in
Lookin at me like
I'm ten feet tall
and me stretchin to be it
an almost makin it
an everybody surprised
                                         but you


- Sam Greenlee
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it came


I got my book in the mail today....

An exquisite book of poems by Sam Greenlee, if you haven't heard of him allow me to introduce you. 


 NOTORIETY

I new I'd arrived
when she
said about me:
Yeah, I remember you
you carried a 
shoulder bag
before
they were
in style.

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