Amiri Baraka Walk Poems

  • 1.
    African blues
    does not know me. Their steps, in sands
    of their own
    land. A country
    ...
  • 2.
    Lately, I've become accustomed to the way
    The ground opens up and envelopes me
    Each time I go out to walk the dog.
    Or the broad edged silly music the wind
    ...
  • 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.
    Where ever something breathes
    Heart beating the rise and fall
    Of mountains, the waves upon the sky
    Of seas, the terror is our ignorance, that's
    ...
Total 4 Walk Poems by Amiri Baraka

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