Poet Laureate Circle

August 30, 2021
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Our Voices Count Too

        Our Voices Count Too(for Angela Fobbs) There are many who discreditThose who follow the callThe fist raised in protestThe lament in the darkness But even in......
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August 21, 2021
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Lost Talent

As he sat down, with a look of hunger in hisEyes. As I searched, nothing not evens the lowest.Sensing, a strange and different personality fromThe others. He glanced up with......
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August 19, 2021
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In Your Face

        Just because you smiled at me this morning on the busDoesn’t change the fact that so many others didn’tJust because you claim that there are no......
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August 15, 2021
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A Black Woman Thinking Out Loud

        If we had justice for allHuman Rights Movements would die outIf cops stopped targeting black men and womenPeople wouldn’t have to fight racial profilingIf we had......
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July 27, 2021
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A Song For the Lonely

        There are times when life seems to get you downYou look for friends but none can be foundYour hope is low, nowhere to goNothing to do,......
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July 17, 2021

Self-Evident Truth

  Our nation was conceived in the minds of men, who felt that tyranny was the greatest threat to liberty. But the self-evident truth of equality they wrote about did......
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July 05, 2021
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A Coach and a Player

  The dedication and bonding of both permeates the barriers of age and life.The transplanting of knowledge into the player with the grace and skill ofAn eagle in a hunt.......
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July 03, 2021
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The Clock Stops After 400 Years

  And, the time has come for the retreat into the cavesfrom whence we came. As the Clock StopsAs the clock stops, and the wind blows in all directionsas the......
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July 03, 2021
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A Timely Encounter

        Today I met two angels on the pathOne was an older slightly lined womanWhite mature cultivated masculineShe asked me to dance with herBut first I should......
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June 18, 2021
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It's a Brand New Day

        Can you hear the whistle blowin‘?Do you know where you’re goin?Take a trip down the seasideClear Waters moving deep and wideRidin on that new A TrainBest......
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