We celebrate poetess extraordinaire Sonia Sanchez…

 

Morning Song and Evening Walk

Tonite in need of you

and God

I move imperfect

through this ancient city.

Quiet. No one hears

No one feels the tears

of multitudes.

The silence thickens

I have lost the shore

of your kind seasons

who will hear my voice

nasal against distinguished

actors.

O I am tired

of voices without sound

I will rest on this ground

full of mass hymns.

 

–Sonia Sanchez

 

Copyright © 1999 by Sonia Sanchez. Excerpted from poem “Morning Song and Evening Walk”. Reprinted from the book Shake Loose My Skin published by Beacon Press with permission of author.

 

     4 haiku

(for Nubia)

1.

Telephone wires sang

her voice over

soft sister laughter

2.

you held us

with summer stained

smiles of hope

3.

i hold your

breath today…you sail home

across the ocean

4.

i see you Nubia

walking your Mississippi walk

God in your hands.

 

–Sonia Sanchez

 

Copyright © 2010 by Sonia Sanchez. Reprinted from the book morning haiku published by Beacon Press with permission of author.