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We love poetry…Excerpts from renaissance by Tony Mitchelson

Excerpts from Renaissance

 

The after scent of rain hangs in the air

Breathe deeply of this aura

Expel the staleness of enclosures

It is strange how problems which loomed

so greatly at one time, once digested by inner truth,

are relegated to minute cubicles of the past

While pleasantries, so insignificant at their inception,

have resurfaced and pulsate

a glowing/growing relief

It is strange how the thirst of the driest day

is quenched by the fiercest of storms

The calmness which ensues is a mystical lull

broken only by stirrings of new life

–Tony Mitchelson

 

 

Copyright © 2008 Tony Mitchelson. Reprinted from the book Linyak Love

Tony Mitchelson is a writer, poet, and co-founder of The Linyak Project, an arts, cultural, and educational organization based in Harlem. The Newark, NJ resident has been published in African Voices Magazine, Blind Beggar Press Anthology Collector’s Edition, Brilliant Flame Amiri Baraka’s Anthology, 50BOLD.com, and Merge Literary Magazine.

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