Poetic Creations for Thought and Inspiration
AS WE PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE
We pledge allegiance to the red white and blue
For which it stands justice for all and liberty too
One nation under God indivisible so they say
Indiscriminate to religion race sex even gay
As we pledge allegiance to the red white and blue
Silent voices wonder if its the right thing to do
Excuse us for doubting in time of pain and need
Oh say can you see unite regardless of creed
So we pledge allegiance to the red white and blue
It seems like the politically correct thing to do
Since the home of the brave burnt in spacious sky
And crumbled to the ground but still we ask why
Should we pledge allegiance to the red white and blue
While we wait for our promised dreams to come true
Among rubbles of sacrificed lives can be seen
The tangled arms in sleeves yellow red black and green
Copyright © Delores Chamblin
September 2001
GIVE ME A MOMENT
I want to kiss away all your invisible tears
And wipe away pain suffered throughout the years
I long to hold on to your manhood real tight
To let you know everything is going to be alright
And allow you to release juice of pent up sorrow
While I assure you there will be a better tomorrow
I want to drink your tears and quench my thirst
Just give me a moment to wipe away mine first
Copyright © Delores Chamblin
January 2004
A TO Z SUMMATION OF OUR SITUATION
Oftentimes I stayed
in the shade
of the trees all day.
But today I danced
and pranced
along the moist cool bay,
watching butterflies and bees
swarming around trees ...
young tropical trees
that were swaying
and playing
along with the breeze.
I sat near a mass
of withered grass
and delicate little flowers,
thinking of nothing at all,
just watching leaves fall,
descending in little showers.
As the evening neared
and I feared
the mysteriously tranquil dark,
I quickly got up and began
to skip then ran
home, forgetting about my lark.
When I reached my shack
the same black
of the night was everywhere.
So I went straight ahead
into my bed,
not looking back on my fear.
Copyright © 1973
Delores Duncan (Chamblin)
SHOW ME LOVE
Before you rub my body all over with lotion
I must see your true heart and real emotion
Demonstrate to me your love and devotion
Before you put your sexual part into motion
If you want me to drink your sweet love potion
Show me love isn't just an old fashioned notion
Copyright ©2004
Delores Chamblin
WEB OF CONFUSION
As time drifts away into a web of allusion
Voices emerge into a mind with conclusion
While messengers and chatters are out of fusion
Real faces struggle through the masks of illusion
And enter the net tangled in conflicting delusion
Adding FYI to the wide world of confusion
Copyright ©2004
Delores Chamblin
LOST SAILOR
A sailor searched the sea
To see which way it led
He followed the current
For he couldn't see ahead
When the moving current
Very swiftly went by
The sailor raised his head
And looked out for the sky
He searched for the rainbow
Through the gray foggy day
And continued to move on
Though he couldn't see the way
Copyright ©1980
Delores Chamblin
STILL I RISE
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.
Does my sassiness upset you?
why are you beset with gloom?
'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
pumping in my living room.
Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.
Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
Weakened by my soulful cries.
Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take it awful hard
'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin' in my own backyard.
You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
you may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.
Does my sexiness upset you?
does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?
Out of the huts of history's shame
I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.
PHENOMENAL WOMAN
Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size
But when I start to tell them,
They think I'm telling lies.
I say,
It's in the reach of my arms
The span of my hips,
The stride of my step,
The curl of my lips.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.
I walk into a room
Just as cool as you please,
And to a man,
The fellows stand or
Fall down on their knees.
Then swarm around me,
A hive of honey bees.
I say,
It's the fire in my eyes,
And the flash of my teeth,
The swing in my waist,
And the joy in my feet.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.
Men themselves have wondered
What they see in me.
They try so much
But they can't touch
My inner mystery.
When I try to show them
They say they still can't see.
I say,
It's in the arch of my back,
The sun of my smile,
The ride of my breasts,
The grace of my style.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.
Now you understand
Just why my head's not bowed.
I don't shout or jump about
Or have to talk real loud.
When you see me passing
It ought to make you proud.
I say,
It's in the click of my heels,
The bend of my hair,
the palm of my hand,
The need of my care,
'Cause I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.
LORD, WHY DID YOU MAKE ME BLACK?
Copyright © RuNett Nia Ebo
Lord, Lord,
Why did You make me Black?
Why did You make me someone
The world wants to hold back?
Black is the color of dirty clothes;
The color of grimy hands and feet.
Black is the color of darkness;
The color of tire-beaten streets.
Why did you give me thick lips,
A broad nose and kinky hair?
Why did You make me someone
Who receives the hatred stare?
Black is the color of a bruised eye
When somebody gets hurt.
Black is the color of darkness.
Black is the color of dirt.
How come my bone structure's so thick;
my hips and cheeks are high?
How come my eyes are brown
and not the color of the daylight sky?
Why do people think I'm useless?
How come I feel so used?
Why do some people see my skin and think I should be abused?
Lord, I just don't understand;
What is it about my skin?
Why do some people want to hate me
And not know the person within?
Black is what people are "listed",
When others want to keep them away.
Black is the color of shadows cast.
Black is the end of the day.
Lord, You know, my own people mistreat me;
And I know this just isn't right.
They don't like my hair or the way I look
They say I'm too dark or too light.
Lord, Don't You think it's time
For You to make a change?
Why don't You re-do creation
And make everyone the same?
(God answered:)
Why did I make you black?
Why did I make you black?
Get off your knees and look around.
Tell Me, what do you see?
I didn't make you in the image of darkness.
I made you in the Likeness of ME!
I made you the color of coal
From which beautiful diamonds are formed.
I made you the color of oil,
The black-gold that keeps people warm.
I made you from the rich, dark earth
That can grow the food you need.
Your color's the same as the panther's
Known for (HER) beauty and speed.
Your color's the same as the Black stallion,
A majestic animal is he.
I didn't make you in the Image of darkness
I made you in the Likeness of Me!
All the colors of a Heavenly Rainbow
Can be found throughout every nation;
And when all those colors were blended well,
YOU BECAME MY GREATEST CREATION.
Your hair is the texture of lamb's wool
Such a humble, little creature is he.
I am the Shepherd who watches them.
I am the One who will watch over thee.
You are the color of midnight-sky,
I put the stars' glitter in your eyes.
There's a smile hidden behind your pain
That's the reason your cheeks are high.
You are the color of dark clouds formed
when I send My strongest weather.
I made your lips full so when you kiss
the one you love they will remember.
Your stature is strong; your bone structure, thick
to withstand the burdens of time.
The reflection you see in the mirror...
The Image looking back at you is MINE!
(Inspired by the book of Genesis 1:26a and 27a&c
And God said, Let us make man in Our image,
after Our Likeness...So God created man in His own image...
male and female created He them).
BEAUTIFUL AND BLACK
Copyright © 1998 Marion Levi Jones (Recovery Inc.)
You are Beautiful and I think you should know.
There is a special way about you that give you a glow.
You are also Black and that is a beauty in itself.
Because you are our backbone when there is no one else.
The color of your hair when the sun hits it makes your face just shine so bright.
The Lord has mold and made you just right
You are a Beautiful Black Woman if you have not heard it in a while.
This I see in you and I wanted to make and see you smile.
INVICTUS
Out of the night that covers me
Black as the Pit from pole to pole
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the horror of the shade
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate
How charged with punishment the scroll
I am the Master of my fate
I am the Captain of my soul.
-- William Ernest Henley
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