Read Poem, by Eddie Bennett

Of soul stirring words,
Of the creation of hallowed grounds;
In the mind.
Of expanded intellects,
And sparkling gleams of the Black forms eyes.
On toward higher planes of intellectual existence.
Of a refined mental and emotional disposition.
Of, or pertaining to, the manifest destiny of the Black beings preeminence.
Laboring though the harsh birth of a “New Negro”.
The contemporary representation of that which came before.
Broken out of the chains that kept it close to society’s hegemonic floor.
True to its divine form.
No longer lost in the labyrinth of a lesser mind.
Burdened brows raised to see the message;
That God gave Noah in the rainbow sing,
No more water,
The fire next time.
Fearless Bucks
Releasing spears they are supposed to chuck.
Raised up on the hope that floats
Forcing society to lower its motes.
Maternal captives,
Captive maternal.
Captivating hearts and minds.
Igniting the light of the intellectual infernal.

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