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.