A Black Wedding Song
“A Black Wedding Song” by Gwendolyn Brooks is a brief, blessing‑like lyric that frames Black marital love as an act of resistance and a form of spiritual weaponry in a hostile world. Drawing on...
Category : Love Poems
The Union of Two by Haki R. Madhubuti
What matters is the renewing and long running kinship. Seeking common mission, willing work, memory, melody, song Marriage is an art Created by the serious,...
If You Know Her by Kwame Dawes
If you know your woman, know her rhythms, know her ways; if you paying attention to her all these years, you will know how she...
You Are by Kwame McPherson
You Are …the honey in my Cerassie tea …the Ackee with my Saltfish …the Rum in my Coke …the Ganja in my cake, well soaked…...
I Held You in the Square by Ben Okri
I Held You in the Square And felt the evening Re-order itself around Your smile. The dreams I could never touch Felt like your body....
The Way We Were Made by Marcus Wicker
But you made every delicate, elegant wrist & glistening ankle. But you made them beautiful in braided rope & dime store gold. But you made...