Romella Kitchens Poems

If you have aged, it is not because
you have set out amongst the rocks
and cavernous dens of existence
to do so.
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East St. Louis

Sorrow is not done for the Black man.
Here it comes, pouring down like
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Nothing is of purpose in this world but love.
Love has the ultimate value.
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The Day For Living Angels

It was sunlit that day and, we headed by car up to
Ohio Pyle in Pennsylvania.
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REVOLUTION, REVOLUTION, REVOLU-

God's palms lay beneath the earth.
The earth is not suspended in this...
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The Shroud

Reconciliation of the lost soul with the inquisitive soul and
the found.
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"We Wish Light"

1.
We wish light.
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God's Harmonic
Melodic.
Song of life sung by God.
Work the rows.
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clemency

over the rough gravel and
up the severe grate his feet bleed
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'Courting' Experience

A man asks a woman, 'Sweet girl, will you ever court again? '
And, the woman replies quite firmly:
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