Novdel02's Poems

Here's the list of poems submitted by novdel02  —  There are currently 3 poems total — keep up the great work!

Trick or Treat

Just now, there is a stranger in my bed
Blue eyes, white skin and straight flowing hair
Blowing in the wind of my standing fan
I did not hear my kinky-haired wife make her exit
I did not see my olive-skinned baby leave
But this stranger in her...

by Joy McLean

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Etches

Crumpled youth
Disposed like a rejected note
Balled in anger and fisted in the wind
Retrieved as an after-thought
Rolled out and smoothed over
But the relentless spider veins of time
Permanently etched on this once flawless canvas
Tell a long...

by Joy McLean

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Mi Patwa a Tan Ya

They called you broken
When you were perfect
Well-formed and complete
They scorned your heritage
Because you were Black
And represented the poor
Who were fragmented in mind and...

by Joy McLean

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