Sojourner Kincaid Rolle Poems

There is a place in all our breasts
where we hold our truest treasures.
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I've known of missing poems before
poems stronger than the suppressing hand
poems more powerful than the invisibility
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General Granger brought the news to
Galveston: "The war is over! "
President Lincoln signed a decree;
The Emancipation Proclamation
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In humble apropros
Standing within the circle
That holds in loving care
All that lies between-
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It was after the flags had been lowered -
We lifted our heads to watch
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(On the 100th Anniversary of Women's' Right To Vote In California)

Centenary greetings to the daughters of the suffragettes.
We are all daughters of the suffragettes.
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Ironic that the truth
should be sought
on the shoulder of Eve
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I am in a place
where water rolls across the stones
rippling in ranges
too high for human tones to mimic
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Beneath the untroubled brambles
beyond the reach of marauding scavengers
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It is the task of our time to document the ways of our
time; their antecedents and authenticities. To show
the status of ritual as it is alive and in action now.
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