i dream to write <br />like black women poets <br />free from verbose bondage <br />strutting away verses <br />with enviable clarity, <br />simplicity, agile as <br />an ambitious lass on <br />hip hop dance floor <br /> <br />i also know why <br />the caged bird sings <br />it's because it wishes <br />to fly to the affectionate black woman poet <br />to learn from her how freedom songs should be sung <br /> <br />i dream to write <br />like black woman poets <br />verses so eloquently tempoed, neatly executed <br />they float through my soul the lightness of <br />butterflies flitting from rose to rose, bloom to bloom <br />smoke over indian summer ocean <br /> <br />i dream to write <br />like black woman poets <br />with no pretensions about the past <br />calling a spade a spade <br />yet infectiously bold about the future <br />taking the world by storm - in storms <br />- black women poets who could take me through <br />the thick and thin of their salvation song <br />with a tenacity court cases are won <br />gospel songs are sang<br /><br />john tiong chunghoo<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/poem-about-poetry-i-dream-to-write-like-black-woman-poets/
