Amiri Baraka

Poems Biography

Amiri Baraka People Poems

  • 1.
    In the south, sleeping against
    the drugstore, growling under
    the trucks and stoves, stumbling
    through and over the cluttered eyes
    ...
  • 2.
    African blues
    does not know me. Their steps, in sands
    of their own
    land. A country
    ...
  • 3.
    'A closed window looks down
    on a dirty courtyard, and Black people
    call across or scream across or walk across
    defying physics in the stream of their will.
    ...
  • 4.
    It cannot come
    except you make it
    from materials
    it is not
    ...
Total 4 People Poems by Amiri Baraka

Top 10 most used topics by Amiri Baraka

I Love You 5 Love 5 People 4 Soul 4 Walk 4 Black 4 God 3 Flat 3 Language 3 Rise 3

Write your comment about Amiri Baraka

Eric Vandermarkt: I see a lot of truths in who blew up America. America is full of greedy evil and perverse people. It starts at the very top.
Roald Dahl
Harold Pinter

Poem of the day

Andrew Lang Poem
Ballade Of The Midnight Forest
 by Andrew Lang

Still sing the mocking fairies, as of old,
Beneath the shade of thorn and holly-tree;
The west wind breathes upon them, pure and cold,
And wolves still dread Diana roaming free
In secret woodland with her company.
'Tis thought the peasants' hovels know her rite
When now the wolds are bathed in silver light,
And first the moonrise breaks the dusky grey,
...
Read complete poem

Popular Poets