Romella Kitchens Poems

A Poem For Pete Seeger:
It Is All Etched In Crayolas, January 28,2015

It is the coldest day, it is always the coldest
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La Tumbra Sin Nombre
The Unmarked Grave

The mother of plantains and holy thoughts
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The praying man does not let violence into his heart if his prayers are truly prayers.

He can be raised in violence.
He can have practiced violence at some point in
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The Immigrants

1.
It is incorrect in a society to have an exile that
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Oregon

Oregon, I remember you. The way your
trees were unregretful and made imploring love
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Think about it...The more ugly the world treats one group of people
the more beautiful they become.

Consider how the human creature had walked the earth for all these
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So much matters.
Mad hatters.
Everybody dreads the conditions.
Folks carrying around placards, most of them signs
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East St. Louis

Sorrow is not done for the Black man.
Here it comes, pouring down like
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Nothing is of purpose in this world but love.
Love has the ultimate value.
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I must tell you in life there, has
been nothing better than honey in warm
milk with consistent plain, bread warm like
unto human skin - except for peace.
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