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Sojourner Kincaid Rolle
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Sojourner Kincaid Rolle Poems
- To Thine Own Flame Be True There is a place in all our ...
- A Space Where A Poem Ought Be I've known of missing poems ...
- Free At Last - Juneteenth Po...
- Standing On The Place Where...
- The Mockingbird's Song It was after the flags had been ...
- We, The Women (On the 100th Anniversary of Women's' Right To ...
- Chiascuro (On Cleaning The Sis...
Sojourner Kincaid Rolle is a California poet originally from North Carolina. Her poems have appeared in numerous solo and group exhibitions including her 2006 solo show, 'Between Us.' In 2007, she released BLACK STREET, a spoken word CD. Her first full-length collection of poems, BLACK STREET: POEMS, was published by the UCSB Center for Black Studies Research(2009) . She is a former Advisory ... more »
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To Thine Own Flame Be True
To Thine Own Flame Be True
There is a place in all our breasts
where we hold our truest treasures.
Our love for ourselves and for all of our kind
and the virtues by which we are measured.
We begin with the grain that continuously binds
We end with the wheat of our harvest.
We remember our sisters who emblazon our path;
whose flames burn throughout the forest.
Symbolic sisters envisioning their dreams.
Each striding forth from disparate abodes.
Each singing bravely her own heartsong.
Each stepping onto the grand road. ...
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