A poem written in white letters displayed on a black background designed to look like lined notebook paper. The poem with its title reads as follows: The Final Shepherd Death is the last friend we make, the last hand we hold, the last eyes to see us. The last to embrace us, to appreciate us in our rawest soul deep essence, Death is our final companion in life's great adventure. Our final guide, the last to carry us to the ultimate beyond, Death takes us not as a sad spirit but as beautiful gifts from the depths of life's creation.

I wrote this back in February but it feels appropriate to share it now considering recent personal events in my life.

#poem #poetry #Blackpoet #Blacksky #poemsaboutDeath

The Seedling As a quiet little seedling Lay within its darksome bed, To itself it fell a-talking, And this is what it said: “I am not so very robust, But I’ll do the…

For today's #BlackHistoryMonth look at the works of black poets, I'm looking at a work about doing the best you can and persevering, "The Seedling" by Paul Laurence Dunbar.
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/158384...
"Always do the best you can" is a motto all could adopt as their own.
#blackpoet

Day 6 of ✊🏾 #poems

I am my mother’s legacy,
with brevity.

I’ll never recover from her death—
I remember with every breath
that I am her.

She has a palm
on every plan,
a govern
in each goal
I chase after.

I feel her pain,
so I advocate
in her name.

#bvm #blm #blackpoet
#blacksky #blackhistory

A Poem for Children with Thoughts on Death VIII Then ye shall hear the angels sing The trumpet give a sound, Glory, glory to our King, The Saviour’s coming down. XI They shall join that holy word,…

Continuing my look at the works of black poets for Black History Month, and here's a link to a historic piece indeed — "A Poem for Children with Thoughts on Death" by Jupiter Hammon, the first published African American poet.
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52561/...
#poem #poetry #poet #blackpoet

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Day 4 of ✊🏾 #poems

Black joy
smiling,
grinning from
grill to chin,
taking up space
in a far-off place.
You don’t make sense here,
but you exist anyway.
White people are puzzled—
how you juggle
heartache and hard times,
and still find time
to laugh through the bullsh*t.

#bvm #poetry #blackpoet #blm

Day 1 of Posting My Poetry

Black lives
Black love
Black happiness
Black hugs

Black family
Black fears
Black hope
Black tears

Black legacy
Black voices
Black votes
Black choices

Black history
Black story
Black misery
Black glory

#poetry #blm #blackpoet
#writer #poet #poems #bvm

Happy #blackhistorymonth #blackartist #blackpoet #neurodivergent #haiku

Let America Be America Again!

open.substack.com/pub/onthisda...

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#BlackPoet
#JazzPoetry
#JazzAge
#HalemRenaissance
#LangstonHughes

Four-term North Carolina Gov. Jim Hunt, a leader in education reform, dies at 88 Hunt's career, including an unprecedented 16 years in the governor's office, provided a prototype for the modern “education governor.”

Gov. Hunt declared June 28 'George Moses Horton Day', honoring the slave-poet

We send ye off in honors! >🎖

Four-term North Carolina Gov. Jim Hunt, a leader in education reform, dies at 88 - POLITICO share.google/wIMjkFo3mJ9x...

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We Are Not A Monolith Loving Each Other as We Are, Accepting Each Other As We Are.

Read “We Are Not A #Monolith“ by Estella Writes on Medium: medium.com/foundation-o...

#blacksky #blackpoet

December 📃

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A screenshot of a poem in white letters on a black background lined to look like notebook paper. The poem has the bold and underlined title "Sweet Enrapture". It reads as follows: I want to inhale you into the depths of me like you are breath itself, become one with you like roots in earth and blossom forth into a pleasure untold. To consume your immenseness into my depths, feeling you blend into me, a warm pulsating fullness in the soft embrace of my most sacred spaces. I want to envelop you welcomingly into the purest of ecstasies, intertwining and unraveling all at once, becoming the most beautiful scene of hedonistic passion wrapped in sweet reunion.

I actually like how this poem turned out. So, I'm gonna share it before I find something wrong with it and change my mind. #Blackpoetry #Blackpoet #intimatepoetry #poem

Adekola is a Black, working-class, writer & creative wellbeing practitioner. Nigrescence, is available at
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A free verse poem for someone like me. View full poem! ⬇️
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Adekola is a Black, working-class, writer & creative wellbeing practitioner.His breakthrough collection of poetry Nigrescence, is available at
adekola.bigcartel.com
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#poetry #workingclass
#Blackpoet #creativewellbeing

Recited a poem of mine aloud, to myself tonight. Just had to get going, getting started

Overcame Resistance

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“What was lost, teaches.” 🍁 🍂 #Poem #PoetryCommunity #Poetry #Writing #WriterCommunity #blackpoet #blackwriters #blueskypoets #newmonth

Just rhyming ✍🏾

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“I gather my focus like light in my hands…” ✍🏽 #Poem #PoetryCommunity #Poetry #Writing #WriterCommunity #blackpoet #blackwriters #blueskypoets

This is where foundation deepen. #Poem #PoetryCommunity #Poetry #Writing #WriterCommunity #blackpoet #blackwriters #blueskypoets

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1/2 October 17 is celebrated as Black Poetry Day to honor the contributions of Black poets. If you swipe through the slides, you'll learn more about the wonderful Maya Angelou!

#mayaangelou #blackpoet #blackpoetry #blackpoetryday #poetry

I'm celebrating Black Poetry Day by highlighting poetry and novels-in-verse by Black authors published in 2015 to 2025. ✍🏿
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Paused:
Hiding from an unskippable journey.
Ten seconds later and I see my end.
Ten seconds earlier and I witness my beginning.
At zero seconds I haven’t yet made my choice.
Not ready to start my quest, but they are ready to watch.

#poetry #poems #blackpoet #writing

A free verse poem about life. New poem on my Substack. Check out the link below for “Pieces” 🙌

open.substack.com/pub/kexum/p/...

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A screenshot of a poem in white letters on a black background. This poem goes as follows: Make Art of Me Touch me like your fingers are married to my skin, Unyielding and eager caresses on soft suppleness, Mapping out a kingdom awaiting its king. Kiss me with fervor of beast fed on longing and desire, Make a memory of your lips on mine, Ensure my body only recognizes the feel of your sweet embrace. Learn the depths of me, The peaks and valleys of my sacred temple of warmth and flesh, The ebb and flow of my deepest ocean between my thighs. Become one with me and take us to the zenith of ecstasy and carnal desire.

A screenshot of a poem in white letters on a black background. This poem goes as follows: Lover's Sorrow I still remember the way it felt when you held me, the gentle tenderness with which your supposed love enveloped me, the sweet nothings that remained just that. I wish my heart could forget, could burn away the lingering feelings that fuel grief's fire like kindling, could find no sadness in my heart for what I thought this could be. I never wanted to mourn you, to see you as a phantom in the crowd, to feel hollowness and regret where love and hope had so cautiously bloomed. I do not miss you, not the warmth or the longing, not the promises I'd desperately wished you kept, Just the hope for love so tragically lost with you.

Felt like sharing a couple of recent poems. Hopefully they make someone feel something out there.
#Blackpoetry #Blackpoems #BlackPoet #Blacksky

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