Kenneth R Jenkins

Is it enough
To being Black in America
To being in America?
First fired
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Monday's child raised up in the morning
Away to school for another day.
Tuesday child makes ready for another day,
Making the best of what that may come their way.
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in memory of the children of South Africa


Freedom!
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in memory of Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes


In hopes that your sleep
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Survival
In a world that owes you nothing
And yet they say they do.
Give or take a thousand or two
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You see, you make me wanna write,
You make wanna write words
So sweet and on the other hand
Words wind up so tight
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They accused her of a crime
Yes a crime she did and they lead
Her to this strange man
Who talks strange,
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to all my fellow poets

Word 4 word
Pound 4 pound
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Politicians-
Wake up from your sleep
Of political thinking
High prices, high taxes
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I am a man-
No matter the color
No matter the race
No matter the time or place
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In Memory of Vetta M. Jenkins Mims

One word is so hard to say
To someone like you in every way,
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In loving memory of Queen Young Murray(1921-2005)

In case we didn't say it,
or express it enough to let you know,
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I look up above my head this fair evening
And saw the slender of it all,
How the night time is formed and fashioned
And with beauty of night delightful
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You make write....

You make me write the world over
And just not settle for the best
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The sun didn't rise of yet
For it's early and the night slips away quietly
Like a thief it steals away,
Then sneaks up on you without notice.
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To Langston H.

I sit here writing these words
Inspired with pen in hand
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me that single one

the singleness of oneness
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The soul of Jazz
Where Jazz is soul
And the soul of Jazz is within
Bringing back the days old
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My muse-
My way of escape into a world
Of rhymes and words
Sprinkled in with other words.
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No matter the distance
Between us in miles,
No matterthe lifespan,
Spread all thewhile
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