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David Cooper
David Cooper
(Louisville, Kentucky)
Biography of David Cooper
David Cooper began writing poetry at 18; he won his first poetry prize for a poem about the Vietnam War titled: 'Question.' He was a reporter for the Courier-Journal and has been an English teacher at Jefferson Community and Technical College for twenty-eight years. He won first place for faculty fiction in 1995 Metroversity Writing Contest for the short story, 'Have You Been Saved? ' He has published in the Kentucky Poetry Review, Jefferson Review, Bluegrass Literary Review, and Muse Magazine. Last December he won first prize for the poem, 'Bajan Girl.'
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David Cooper Poems
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Afro Images
(For Natalie) She was dark and fine with large African sunsets -
Lord Trump
Imperial, supercilious Self-crowned Monarch Of the bad comb-over -
Garden
(For Suzette) While we walked Through the gardens On that rain soaked -
Richmond, Virginia 1958
My father, mother, and I traveled six hundred miles And twenty years back In a brand new Plymouth sedan. -
Confinement
Like Dunbar A caged bird Cannot fly. I spread my wings& try, -
Devil Moon
Blame it on the August Moon that waxed and waned way too soon. from fall's eve until December she burned like an ember. -
American Gothic
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Afro Images
(For Natalie)
She was dark and fine
with large African sunsets
for eyes.
You could see the whole world
in her eyes.
Her eyes reflected joy;
they mirrored the pain—
