My jubilant latent, nascent poetic tribute to black history month

rew4er2nail

Which acknowledgement ought to be year round,
similar to altruistic, humanistic, and philanthropic
unconditional acceptance and respect
crafted with the following words
mostly written January 23rd, 2023,
cuz I, (a sexagenarian married Caucasian male)
get goosebumps when learning

about individuals, (whose skin color
spans the color spectrum)
contributed invaluable positive deeds
(not necessarily done dirt cheap),
yet impacted civilization in general,
and yours truly in particular
being analogously thunderstruck with awe.

 

more apropos and alternately titled:

praise to thee people
of variegated melanin color,

whose immense understated improvements
and enhancement of webbed wide world
worth more than paltry words
of yours truly can communicate.

 

Though I yam spud during Caucasian,

tis rightful to honor that most bitter

racist genocidal crime,
nevertheless ovation qua
treated worse than pestilential critter
quintessential significant contribution
vis a vis that doth litter
anonymous multitudinous peoples
many unknown dark skinned souls
bravely fought as non quitter
with melanin so coon sitter
this asthma feeble attempt

made to mind of literate

parent, guardian or sitter

adorn aye rhythmically twitter

 

to Homo Sapiens with Negroid color
(please pardon any unintentional slight)

who, despite being human bondage
managed to adorn
worthy contributions to society,

though an American (though not so proud

until death do me part)
and civilization since time immemorial

hence, I wanna pay poetic homage

 

to persons born

akin to diversity exemplifying gamut

analogous to Indian (Jimmy crack) corn

debased brutally and forlorn

and raised in cornucopia horn

of plenty with rare serf tenderness

whipped by wicked task masters

from the crack of morn,
whipped, pummeled, beaten...
courtesy Jim Crow whose dignity shorn

aye cannot fathom why

 

a great proportion of humanity

must struggle on scraps of subsistence

viz with fifty plus shades of chocolate
vile shamefully opprobrious sworn
vengeance toward those
via heroic efforts escaped,

manacled, tortured, et cetera history
as slaves an existence

until...pacified family dislocated

sans rent asunder, ripped and torn.

 

Once a proud family akin to Brady

bunch, now brutally, nasty

and short lived poorly destitute

(case in point) like Haiti -

once a nation extant with cultural finery

insidiously raped pink "Lady"

lacerated odiously robbing

unique peoples as owners didst slay

practically naked "Primates"

 

encaged like wild animals in zoos

culturally robbed while

abhorrently marched in ones and twos

shredded souls without shoes

(analogous to persecuted Jews)

of singular ambition to break shackles

fielding exorbitant dues,

through tightly fused

linkedin manacles to life as they choose.

This just one example of many peoples

UNFAIRLY subjected

to subservience and exempt

from enjoying the fruits of their labor.

 

January twelfth two thousand and ten

original date a portion
of this communiqué writ then

kept wedged where in no wise

bore visual witness

vis a vis near annihilation and destruction

of African, Haitian,

South American, et cetera nations

whereby countless/ nameless individuals

e’en the strongest Herculean type men
crushed by humungous slabs of

 

building facades practically

demolishing every creation
since this island settled, which

indigenous tribes sought safety

in any geologic den
seeking solace and salvation

from wrath of nature

by paying obeisance via oblation
perhaps giving credence to clear water
in tandem with rooster and hen
that laid a golden egg

 

and chicken thing, especially
as encroaching savages affected violation
particularly when Europeans

foisted forfeiture of land

with primitive implement like pen
no matter that travesty, trickery, mockery,
et cetera wrought humiliation
pleading invaders to forsake

such actions that rent asunder

culture beseeched god when
these hashtagged brutish, nasty


and (shortish) Hobbesian simians
to cease desecration,
yet the peoples of this dominion rose
from the ashes like the phoenix like bird
no mattered genetic pool underwent

white washing from scouring influx
from western thumping proselytizers,
which alien beliefs hard to swallow like curd
basically bribery (with lustrous trinkets)

ah those coveted legal tender

upon emancipation proclamation cessation

 

to sell men, women and for x amount of bucks
akin to the soundcloud winged fowl clucks

foisted/ forced the unpleasant alternative
(wanton slaughter) to be clearly heard,
yet within the very fiber of tropical

mangrove persons patiently
lined up their ducks
and declared as one of the first

African American peoples

INDEPENDENCE to be the word
whence adulation, elation, inspiration echoing
across ramshackle greensward.

  • Author: rew4er2nail (Offline Offline)
  • Published: February 2nd, 2024 10:27
  • Category: Sociopolitical
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