Shirley Morgan Poems

Black use to be the color of paint
Today it's used to describe a race of people
Maybe that is the reason why mankind decided to put
the name Black on color folks.
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Stop playing the victim role
you simple pagan.
Stop seeing yourself as others see you
What you project is what others see.
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I found the fountain of youth.
It wasn't in the alcohol
nor the fake nails
or my bank account
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Dancing and she knew all the steps
The girl with the polka dotted dress
grew up on Hoboken streets
of New Jersey
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A man having the blue's because his woman won't act right.
You're such a evil woman.
my boys' say I should leave you alone.
I don't know why I love you like I do!
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New Orleans ' Wall Street dog'
For me I give my condolences to the Mopkins' family in New Orleans'.
It's just something to think about New Orleans'
Is it the Riverwalks, masks.bayou, food, jazz, levee's or your roots.
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My heart bled when you left me for a younger woman. It's really funny how life unfold. I have heard plenty of sermons preached. ' Don't marry for looks'.
When you get older, your hair falls out, your teeth falls out, and you will fall out.
He did'nt mention about that young huzzy.
Yea, the one who likes to dance on a pole.
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Love don't have no name on it.
It's really funny how love is,
you approached me,
know that I'm in love, you want to
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Oh how I wish that I was a child again.
As a child I remember walking in Palisades Park. New Jersey
Oh life was so simple then.
Playing in the park and letting
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Colors, colors a state of mind.
I shall paint this picture as a black woman and not Hindu.
I two shall tell my story as a writer.
Like the Hindu Mahabharatas (author)
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