Sonia Sanchez Poems

nothing will keep
us young you know
not young men or
women who spin
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I'm gonna get me some mummy tape for your love
preserve it for 3000 years or more
I'm gonna let the world see you
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forgive me if i laugh
you are so sure of love
you are so young
and i too old to learn of love.
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once i lived on pillars in a green house
boarded by lilacs that rocked voices into weeds.
i bled an owl's blood
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This woman vomiting her
hunger over the world
this melancholy woman forgotten
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I have gone into my eyes
bumping against sockets that sing
smelling the evening from under the sun
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high/yellow/black/girl
walken like the sun u be.
move on even higher.
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i kneel down like a
collector of jewels before
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I've been a woman
with my legs stretched by the wind
rushing the day
thinking i heard your voice
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Your limbs buried
in northern muscle carry
their own heartbeat
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