Mother Africa Smiles... Poem by MoonBee Canady

Mother Africa Smiles...



Africa Smiles...
As Her Captured Children's Strength Survives
Africa Smiles...
As Her Cultures and Comportment Thrives
and As Anglo / Caucasian-Persuasion Desires
Joins Euro... To Ancient Kush and Congo Lives
In Manner and Speech and Slang and Strides
and Intergrated-Jives and New Age Styles
and Black Berry Lips of Voluptuous Size
... Yes, Mother Africa Smiles

Africa Smiles...
Covered In Coal Dust of Diamonds Pressurized
Africa Smiles...
With A Star-Lit-Sparkle, In Her Big, Dark Eyes
and Like A Milky, White Moon - Her Full Teeth Shines
Saying, 'You Too, Will Dance The Dance of My Child'
... O' Yes, Mother Africa Smiles

Africa Speaks...
Calling To Our Hips, Our Bosoms, Our Feet
Pounding and Pulsing - Even Strained, She Seeps
At First, Her Voice Was Soft and Weak
Then Vocal Tremor Became Tribal Deep!
Across The Earth, Her Sound Sways and Sweeps
Saying, 'You Too, Will Feel My Heart's Drumbeats'
And Like A Sultry Siren - Africa Sings So Sweet
Songs So Warm-Bodied and Sleek
... Africa Smiles, Singing Us To Sleep

Yet, Africa Bleeds...
Almost Bled Dry As Her Arabian Sands, Shifts & Increase
Africa Bleeds...
Even Tho' Her Resources Are As Rich As Jeweled Sheiks
Africa Bleeds...
As Her Continental Beauty, She Struggles To Keep
Africa Bleeds...
Like Poured-Out-Souls, Inked Upon Ledger Sheets
Africa Bleeds...
Like A Slow, Boiling Passion of Lava-Flowing Heat
Africa Bleeds...
Into Far Away Fields and Neighborhood Streets

Africa Bleeds...
And One Drop of Her Blood Floods Like The Power of Seas
and It Makes Her Children Hold Out Their Arms To Reach
And At Her Tears, Her Children Fall To Their Knees
But One Day, Dear Mother... GOD Will Heal The Breach

and Teach - That Mother Africa Holds A Place Unique
And When We Remember - How We Ate Her Seeds
And Climbed Up Her Bosom Like Proud Pyramid Peaks
And Kissed Her Rivers of Glowing Sunset Cheeks...

Africa Smiles Again and Dries The Blood, She Weeps
And Africa's Smile Will Transform The World's Waiting Scene
Rising From Forgotten Shadows To GOD's Garden of Peace
For When Africa Smiles All Civilization Will Greet...

Africa's Smile


Written & Copyrighted ©: 12/22/2013
by: MoonBee Canady

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