Excerpt from my poem "Raven-haired Princess" w/ #Japanese & #español translations.
#Haiku #petalsofhaiku #richardhauken #trilingual #translation #poetry #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity #dmv #maryland #creativewriting #writing #black #blackauthor #blackpoets #poc

Excerpt from my poem "What I Remember of You" w/ #Japanese & #español translations.
#Haiku #petalsofhaiku #richardhauken #trilingual #translation #poetry #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity #dmv #maryland #creativewriting #writing #black #blackauthor #blackpoets #poc

Excerpt from my poem "Milovena" w/ #Japanese & #Spanish #español translations.
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Excerpt from my poem She Who Danced With Me w/ #Japanese & #Spanish #espanol translations.
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Excerpt from my poem Angel of God with #Japanese and #Spanish #español translations.

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Excerpts from past few day's journal entries.

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Excerpt from yesterday's and today's journal entries.

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Excerpt from today's journal entry.

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Excerpt from today's journal entry.

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Excerpt from yesterday's journal entry.

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Excerpt from today's journal entry.

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Excerpt from today's journal entry.

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Excerpts from yesterday's and today's journal entries.

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#8AmWritingClub #SkyPoets
#PoetryCommunity #BlackPoets

12. Arrival
It does not knock twice
does not check if you are dressed
mid-apology, not

#Haiku4u #Prompters

Last Rites—

the wind rearranges niceties
dust gathers in the stairwell
history breathes quieter—
above the ceiling beams.

A #Solseed Joint
#blackpoets #minipoem

Excerpt from yesterday's journal entry.

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Excerpt from past two days of journal entries.

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Excerpt from today's journal entry.

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Excerpt from today's journal entry.

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Excerpts from this past week's journal entries.

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Excerpt from this past week's journal entries.

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Those Winter Sundays Sundays too my father got up early

For today's #BlackHistoryMonth look at the works of #blackpoets, I'm looking at "Those Winter Sundays" by Robwert Hayden:
poets.org/poem/those-w...
I love how the narrator's attitude toward his father changes as he gains a greater realization of what his father did on Sundays.

If I Had Known If I had known

For today's #BlackHistoryMonth look at the works of #blackpoets, I'm looking at the beautiful-but-bittersweet love poem "If I Had Known" by Alice Dunbar-Nelson:
poets.org/poem/if-i-ha...
#poets #poetry #poem

#BlackWriters #BlackPoets are #BlackHistoryMonth

#BlackWriters #BlackPoets are #BlackHistoryMonth

Winter Poem Placing poetry at the crossroads of American life since 1910.

For today's #BlackHistoryMonth look at the works of #blackpoets, I thought I'd go a bit more modern and different. I don't usually go for modern poetry, but I like this one by Nikki Giovanni: "Winter Poem".
poetrysociety.org/poems/winter...
#blackpoetry #poem #poetry

Weep Weep for the downfall o'er your heads and chief, Who sunk without a medium of relief; Who fell beneath the hatchet of their pride, Then like the serpent…

For today's #BlackHistoryMonth look at the works of #blackpoets, I'm looking at "Weep" by George Moses Horton, a poignant piece about an American south ravaged by war.
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/55873/...
"Weep for the country in its present state" could apply, in a different manner, today.

Excerpt from today's journal entry.

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Excerpt from the 22nd's journal entry.

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Excerpt from the 21st's journal entry.

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