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Best Poems From
WADE BLADE
(1/24/1995)
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Graduation Day
Graduation Day
sweat and mothballs
grass so green
graduation
where green banners wave
grass grows long
graduation night
the owl printed on a balloon
seems the wisest
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Poem at Thirty-Nine: Alice Walker
How I miss my father.
I wish he had not been
so tired
when I waas
born.
Writing deposit slips and checks
I think of him.
He taught me how.
This is the form,
he must have said:
the way it is done.
I learned to see
bits of paper
as a way
to escape
the life he knew
and even in high school
had a savings
account.
He taught me
that telling the truth
did not always mean
a beating;
though many of my truths
must have grieved him
before the end.
How I miss my father!
He cooked like a person
dancing
in a yoga meditation
and craved the voluptuous
sharing
of good food.
Now I look and cook just like him:
my brain light;
tossing this and that
into the pot;
seasoning none of my life
the same way twice; happy to feed
whoever strays my way.
He would have grown
to admire
the woman I've become:
cooking, writing, chopping wood,
staring into the fire.
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Moon Rondeau- Carl Sandburg
'Love is a door we shall open together.'
So they told each other under the moon
One evening when the smell of leaf mould
And the beginning of roses and potatoes
Came on a wind.
Late in the hours of that evening
They looked log at the moon and called it
A silver button, a copper coin, a bronze wafter,
A plaque of gold, a vanished diadem,
A brass hat dripping from deep water.
'People like us,
us two
We own the moon.'
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I Am Shades of Life
I am black, I am white
I am all skins in between
I am young, I am old
I am each age that has been
I am scrawny, I am well fed
I am starving for attention
I am famous, I am cryptic
I am hardly worth the mention
I am short, I am height
I am any frame or stature
I am smart, I am challenged
I am striving for a future
I am able, I am weak
I am some strength, I am none
I am being, I am thought
I am all things, said and done
I am born, I am died
I am dust of humble roots
I am grace, I am pain
I am labor of willed fruits
I am slave, I am free
I am bonded to my life
I am rich, I am poor
I am wealth amid strife
I am shadow, I am glory
I am hiding from my shame
I am hero, I am loser
I am yearning for a name
I am empty, I am proud
I am seeking my tomorrow
I am growing, I am fading
I am hope amid the sorrow
I am certain, I am doubtful
I am desperate for solutions
I am leader, I am student
I am fate and evolutions
I am spirit, I am voice
I am memory, not recalled
I am chance, I am cause
I am effort, blocked and walled
I am hymn, I am heard
I am reasoned without rhymes
I am past, I am nearing
I am present in all times
I am many, I am no one
I am seasoned by each being
I am me, I am you
I am all-souls now decreeing
The color of sky
Is blues and grays
The color of earth
Is greens and browns
The color of hope
Is rainbows and purple
And the color peace
Is people together
Shades of life
People together
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