[New post] All The While

A Sonnet Obsession posted: " Kayo Chingonyi I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy. Nikki Giovanni Choreography by Kayo Chingonyi We'd chase a beat-up sphere of synthetic leather" Fourteen Lines All The While A Sonnet Obsession Jul 26 Kayo Chingonyi I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy. Nikki Giovanni Choreography by Kayo Chingonyi We'd chase a beat-up sphere of synthetic leather across the parched dancefloor that claimed our days. Rising from the clutter of a sliding tackle, like we'd never fallen in our lives, we'd sprint into space so we could dance again. We knew when to bend our knees, pivot, hold our puffed chests poised, but best of all was how we'd synchronize our steps offset the strongest defensive tableau with a swerve, all the while tracing the arc of a cross lofted in from the wing. We'd wait for the right time to swing our supple hips, catch the orb mid-flight so that the keeper would crumple to the ground empy-handed and the beat up sphere would slide from the dance floor to the bushes that served as goal nets.    __________________________________ Nikki-Rosa By Nikki Giovanni   childhood remembrances are always a drag if you're Black you always remember things like living in Woodlawn with no inside toilet and if you become famous or something they never talk about how happy you were to have your mother all to yourself and how good the water felt when you got your bath from one of those big tubs that folk in chicago barbecue in and somehow when you talk about home it never gets across how much you understood their feelings as the whole family attended meetings about Hollydale and even though you remember your biographers never understand your father's pain as he sells his stock and another dream goes And though you're poor it isn't poverty that concerns you and though they fought a lot it isn't your father's drinking that makes any difference but only that everybody is together and you and your sister have happy birthdays and very good Christmases and I really hope no white person ever has cause to write about me because they never understand Black love is Black wealth and they'll probably talk about my hard childhood and never understand that all the while I was quite happy   Comment Like You can also reply to this email to leave a comment. Unsubscribe to no longer receive posts from Fourteen Lines. Change your email settings at manage subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://fourteenlines.blog/2023/07/26/all-the-while/

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